647 Films & TV Shows Set In Mexico
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Death Race
🇲🇽 Mexico The 2020s The 2010sGet ready for a killer race. — Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.
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The Ruins
🇲🇽 MexicoTerror has evolved. — Americans Amy, Stacy, Jeff and Eric look for fun during a sunny holiday in Mexico, but they get much more than that after visiting an archaeological dig in the jungle.
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua
🇲🇽 Mexico California50% Warrior. 50% Lover. 100% Chihuahua. — A pampered Beverly Hills chihuahua named Chloe who, while on vacation in Mexico with her owner Viv's niece, Rachel, gets lost and must rely on her friends to help her get back home before she is caught by a dognapper who wants to ransom her.
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Sleep Dealer
Baja California California 🇨🇴 ColombiaCrossing the border just got easier. Plug into the new American dream. — Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.
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The Brothers Bloom
🇲🇽 Mexico New Jersey 🇷🇸 Serbia 🇨🇿 Czechia 🇬🇷 Greece 🇲🇪 Montenegro 🇷🇺 RussiaThey'd never let the truth come between them. — The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
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Under the Salt
🇲🇽 MexicoSome things should be kept beneath. — A series of murders leads Commander Trujillo to Santa Rosa de la Sal a town close to a salt mine, where he meets Victor Zepeda - a lonely teenager who works in his father's funeral home and spends his free time making crude animated horror films - who's strange behavior seems to point at him as the culprit of the crimes.
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Salute
Ciudad de México The 1960sThe story behind the image — The black power salute by Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Mexico Olympics was an iconic moment in the US civil rights struggle. Far less known is the part in that episode in history played by Peter Norman, the white Australian on the podium who had run second — and the price paid afterward by all three athletes.
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Super Comet: After the Impact
🇲🇽 Mexico Hawaii 🇫🇷 France 🇨🇲 CameroonIn a half-documentary, half-movie format we go from just days before the comet makes landfall to months after when those left behind move on to make a new world in the face of what could have ended it all. 'Super Comet' follows these events as seen through the eyes of people in various locations world wide, from a family in Paris, France to a tribe of pygmies in Cameroon everyone is effected
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Lake Tahoe
🇲🇽 MexicoA story of a teenager and the strange events that take place in his small town.
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Nora's Will
🇲🇽 MexicoJose learns that Nora, the woman he was married to for 30 years and from whom divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains Joseph that due to the celebrations this time of the year, if Nora is not buried that same day, they should wait at least 5 days for the funeral. Nora had planned before his death, a Machiavellian plan in order that Joseph was the one who has to take care of his funeral. But Nora forgot a small detail, a mysterious photograph stored under her bed, that will remind Joseph that the greatest love stories, sometimes are hidden in the smallest places.
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Circulation
🇲🇽 MexicoThe film is about reincarnation and takes place in a purgatory where the dead still have human form and the world around them looks the same as the living world. However, the people living in this purgatory start to develop animal instincts. Gene, a retiree vacationing in Baja, is learning the instincts of a spider through his dreams and stumbles upon a woman who is destined to be reborn as a caterpillar/moth. The film explores a world where human and animal intertwine as one.
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Desert of Blood
🇲🇽 MexicoHorror - Buried beneath the Mexican desert for 50 years, vampire Luis Diego (Justin Quinn) wakes with a thirst for vengeance when a treasure hunter unearths him. But after falling for a beautiful mortal (Brenda Romero), he begins to believe he may have a second chance at life and love. While trying to quell his inner demons, however, the lovelorn bloodsucker finds that the monster within is not so easily subdued. - Justin Quinn, Brenda Romero, Naím Thomas
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Planet Terror
🇲🇽 Mexico Texas MassachusettsHumanity's last hope… rests on a high power machine gun! — Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and her ex-boyfriend Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night.
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Silent Light
ChihuahuaJohan and his family are Mennonites from the north of Mexico. Against the law of God and Man, Johan falls in love with another woman.
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Bordertown
🇲🇽 MexicoLies. Corruption. Murder. One reporter will break the silence. — American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.
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Into the Wild
🇲🇽 Mexico South Dakota Nevada Virginia Arizona California Georgia Alaska Colorado 🇨🇦 Canada The 1990sAfter graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
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No Country for Old Men
Texas 🇲🇽 Mexico The 1980sThere are no clean getaways. — Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
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The Go-Getter
🇲🇽 Mexico Oregon Nevada CaliforniaLife doesn't come with a roadmap. — When his mother dies, a teenager takes a road-trip in a stolen car to find his long-lost brother. Along the way he discovers a profound connection with the car-owner and with himself as well.
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Borderland
🇲🇽 MexicoThe Devil's Playground is Just Around The Corner — Three college students, Phil, Ed, and Henry take a road trip into Mexico for a week of drinking and carefree fun only to have Phil find himself a captive of a group of satanic Mexican drug smugglers who kill tourists and whom are looking for a group of new ones to prepare for a sacrifice.
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Delta Farce
🇲🇽 MexicoIn this war the wind doesn’t blow… It hurls. — Three bumbling Army reservists are hustled onto a plane headed for combat in Iraq -- but the fact that the plane drops them in Mexico doesn't stop them from "liberating" what they believe to be the Middle East.
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Species: The Awakening
🇲🇽 MexicoIrresistible beauty. Unstoppable instincts. — A scientist, Dr Holander, takes his niece Miranda to Mexico in an attempt to reverse the effects of the alien DNA he used to create her. However the treatment goes horribly wrong, and sets Miranda on a killing spree as she sets out to find a mate.
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The Legend of the Nahuala
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1800s The 18th CenturyLeo San Juan, an insecure child of nine years old, lives eternally frightened by horror stories that Nando tells his older brother. Within these stories it is 'The Legend of Nahuala', according to which, an old abandoned Casona is possessed by the spirit of an evil witch known as the Nahuala.
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Aztec Rex
🇲🇽 Mexico The 16th CenturyIn 1518 A.D. only the noblest warriors survive — The Aztecs summoned a Tyrannosaurus Rex to keep Cortes and his army out of Mexico. Now they need the Conquistadors' help to stop the T-Rex from killing them all.
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Burn the Bridges
🇲🇽 MexicoDo not be afraid to live your life — Eugenia is a former pop singer who is bedridden and dying of cancer. She is cared for by her daughter, Helena, who dreams of traveling the world and wishes she could be a glamorous pop star like her mother was. Helena’s younger brother Sebastian's dreams are simple and he merely wants to move to the beach. Helena is smart and pretty but she has no friends, male or female and is totally devoted to her mother's care and is also on the verge of initiating an incestuous relationship with Sebastian. Sebastian however, is falling in love with a boy at school named Juan who is the school roughneck and the son of a single father who owns a little bar. Juan is the nemesis of the school preppy named Ismael who comes from such a wealthy home that he has his own chauffeur and bodyguards. Ismael's ping-pong obsessed girlfriend Aurora rents a room at Helena and Sebastian's house where Ismael discovers he is also attracted to Sebastian.
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Blue Eyelids
Ciudad de MéxicoMarina wins a paradise vacation for two, but when she realizes that she has no one to bring along, she decides to invite a stranger named Victor. The pair soon discovers that true love depends more on compatibility rather than idyllic scenery.
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