647 Films & TV Shows Set In Mexico
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The Good Girls
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1980sSofía a well-to-do socialite and her husband must wrestle with the impact of Mexico's 1982 economic crisis.
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Guie’dani’s Navel
Ciudad de MéxicoGuie’dani, a Zapotec indigenous girl and her mother take up work with an upper-class family in Mexico City. The girl does not fit and is conflicting. Everything changes when she meets Claudia, a rebellious girl with whom she becomes close friends.
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Sonora: The Devil’s Highway
Sonora Baja California The 1930s1931, a year of nationalisms and excesses: The Chinese are expelled from Sonora; the US deports Mexicans and closes its borders. Twelve desperate people cross the Sonoran desert in a 1929 Chrysler, hoping to find peace in Baja California. As their sojourn exposes both the best and the worst of human nature, racism, greed, and paranoia prove as deadly as the merciless landscape around them.
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The Mongolian Conspiracy
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1960sCan the Mexican police avoid the assassination of the President of the US? — 1963, the Soviet Union intercepts a rumor that China pretends to assassinate the president of the US in his visit to Mexico. Filiberto Garcia, a local policeman, has 72 hours to investigate the Mongolian Conspiracy. Damn International Intrigue!
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Sister Aimee
California Sonora The 1920sIn 1926 America’s most famous evangelist is a woman. And she’s looking for a way out. Fed up with her own success, she gets swept up in her lover’s daydreams about Mexico and finds herself on a wild road trip towards the border. Based on true events. Mostly made up.
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Sea of Shadows
🇲🇽 Mexico The 2010sThe cartels, the black market and the fight to save a species. — The vaquita, the world’s smallest whale, is nearing extinction as its habitat is destroyed by Mexican cartels and the Chinese Mafia, who harvest the totoaba fish, the “cocaine of the sea.” Environmental activists, the Mexican navy, and undercover investigators are fighting back against this illegal multimillion-dollar business.
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Midnight Family
Ciudad de México The 2010sIn Mexico City, the government operates fewer than 45 emergency ambulances for a population of 9 million. This has spawned an underground industry of for-profit ambulances often run by people with little or no training or certification. An exception in this ethically fraught, cutthroat industry, the Ochoa family struggles to keep their financial needs from jeopardizing the people in their care. When a crackdown by corrupt police pushes the family into greater hardship, they face increasing moral dilemmas even as they continue providing essential emergency medical services.
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Powder
🇲🇽 MexicoWho says money doesn't fall from heaven? — After a ten year absence, El Chato returns to San Ignacio, his hometown, in order to retrieve a shipment of cocaine that was dropped there by a cartel pilot.
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Chicuarotes
Ciudad de MéxicoCagalera and Moloteco are two teenagers from San Gregorio Atlapulco who are desperate to get out and move up and away from oppressive circumstances. When they hear of an opportunity to buy a spot in the electrician’s union, which could transform their lives, they quickly devolve into the criminal, adult underworld of Mexico City in a bid to buy their freedom.
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I'm No Longer Here
Nuevo LeónIn Monterrey, Mexico, a young street gang spends their days dancing to slowed-down cumbia and attending parties. After a mix-up with a local cartel, their leader is forced to migrate to the U.S. but quickly longs to return home.
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Windows on the World
New York Sinaloa The 2000sFaith. Love. Family. Hope. It's inside of us all... — After watching the news on 9/11 with his family, Fernando travels from Mexico to New York City to find his father, an undocumented worker at the World Trade Center's famous Windows on the World restaurant.
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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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Always Say Yes
Ciudad de México SonoraHéctor travels from Hermosillo to Mexico City in the hopes of posing naked for photography collective Feral. His friend Carlos chooses not to go with him. Héctor, determined to experiment with his desire without limits, promises himself to always say yes while in the Aztec capital.
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All the Freckles in the World
Ciudad de México The 1990sTeen comedy set in the school-year of 1994. José is the new kid on high-school, falling immediately for the popular and freckled Christina. Trying to impress her, he's going to unsuccessfully join the soccer try-outs. Is he shooting way out of his league?
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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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Apapacho: A Caress for the Soul
🇲🇽 Mexico The 2010sWhile away in Mexico, Karine and Estelle witness the preparation and rejoicing of the “Day of the Dead”. Inspired by the beauty of the ritual and the fine spiritual humor of their hosts, they will soon learn to see their sister’s recent tragic death in a more light-hearted manner.
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Ana's Desire
Ciudad de MéxicoAna and her son Mateo live in a middle class apartment in Mexico City. The family routine takes a turn when Juan arrives to visit them after several years of absence. The reunion unleashes memories and secrets of their past that Ana will have to confront in order to find, at last, the peace of mind that has been lacking for so long.
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Guadalupe-Kings
🇲🇽 MexicoTwo longtime friends decide to attempt the Guadalupe Reyes challenge, which consist of drinking everyday from December the 12th (Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe) until January the 6th (Epiphany Day, the Feast of The Three Kings).
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Modern Loves
Ciudad de MéxicoA fateful day reunites an estranged family in Mexico City, where a chain of events shifts their romantic relationships and uncovers a monumental secret.
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La máscara de cristal
Ciudad de MéxicoIgnacio is a film director who, together with Mexican screenwriter Rogelio,are starting the preparation for their next film: "The Crystal Mask". The story is based on a real event in Mexico City at the time when Rogelio lived in the Margarita Maza de Juárez homeless shelter for children. In order to start production, it is necessary, once again, the financial assistance of the director's mother.
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The House of Flowers Presents: The Funeral
Ciudad de MéxicoThe de la Mora family, their friends, acquaintances, and rivals gather for the funeral of Virginia de la Mora.
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Gringo
Illinois Ciudad de México The 2010sAn American corporation, the Mexican cartel, chances are this won't end well. — An American businessman with a stake in a pharmaceutical company that's about to go public finds his life is thrown into turmoil by an incident in Mexico.
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The Predator
🇲🇽 Mexico Tennessee New Mexico California Georgia The 2010sThe hunt has evolved. — When a young child accidentally triggers extraterrestrial hunters to return to Earth, a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and scientists join forces to prevent the end of the human race.
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Time Share
🇲🇽 Mexico The 2010sWhile staying at a tropical resort, a man becomes convinced the American timeshare company running it has an evil plan to take away his loved ones.
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Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Ciudad de México New Mexico Kansas Texas 🇩🇯 Djibouti 🇸🇴 SomaliaNo rules this time — Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.
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