The 40 most popular 2010s mexican movies, ranked. Click any film for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.


Chapo: El Escape Del Siglo
2016 · 1h 27m
country: Mexico
A famous drug kingpin escapes from prison. The mexican president wants him back in jail whereas the U.S. government wants him dead.


Infection
2019 · 1h 35m
country: Venezuela
Film about an epidemic outbreak of a new rabies virus in Venezuela and a father trying to save his son from contagion. A Russian man is in Caracas under the influence of the Krokodil drug, when he gets infected with the rabies virus and starts an epidemic of aggressive and cannibalistic beings. Doctor Adam Vargas is in the midst of all this, when he begins a journey within a ravaged Venezuela to save his son from being infected.


El Infierno
2010 · 2h 28m
country: Mexico
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.


Get the Gringo
2012 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.


No manches, Frida
2016 · 1h 40m
country: Mexico
After being released from prison, Zequi, a bank robber, sets out to recover money buried by his accomplice; but is horrified to learn that a high school gymnasium is now over the site where the loot is hidden.


Deseo
2013 · 1h 37m
country: Mexico
Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a colonial city of Mexico.


Day Six
2016 · 1h 42m
country: Mexico
Carmen, a young actress is trapped between the love she feels for Pablo and the relationship she has with Joaquin. When she finds out about the illnnes she has, she decides to take a trip with one of them, which will change the life of all forever.


Miss Bala
2019 · 1h 44m
country: Mexico
Gloria finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and strength.


Perras
2011 · 1h 40m
country: Mexico
Something terrible is happening in class 3A at Calmecatl Junior High. No one can leave the classroom until the guilty party is found. This is the device that gives us a glimpse of the ethics, games, esthetics and eroticism of these girl-women. It is not easy to say what the subject is, there are so many: the discovery of sexuality, discrimination, chance, drugs, maternity, traditions, betrayals, power, love. A mural of a complex reality from the point of view of twenty-something women in the skin of 14 to 15 year old girls.


Biutiful
2010 · 2h 28m
country: Mexico
This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.


Sanctorum
2019 · 1h 23m
country: Dominican Republic
In a small village on the edge of the war between the military and the cartels, a little boy escapes to the forest to plead to the gods of nature for his disappeared mother's safe return.


Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
2010 · 1h 39m
country: Australia
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.


The Legend of La Llorona
2011 · 1h 15m
country: Mexico
Based on a famous Mexican legend, a group of kids must stop the ghost of a woman whose guilt over the drowning of her own children leads her to abduct youngsters who wander the woods at night.


Huevos: Little Rooster's Egg-Cellent Adventure
2015 · 1h 39m
country: Mexico
Toto has grown and now is a young cock. An evil rancher tricks the female owner of the ranch where they live and forces her to bet the property in a cockfight in the arena. Toto is the only option to defend their home, so he must train in just one week and win the championship of the arena.


Little Boy
2015 · 1h 46m
country: United States
An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.


PAW Patrol: Mighty Pups
2018 · 44m
country: Canada
When their latest scheme goes awry, Mayor Humdinger and his nephew Harold accidentally divert a meteor towards Adventure Bay. The meteor's golden energy grants the PAW Patrol superpowers. The heroic Mighty Pups are on a roll to super-save the day.


Zaragoza's Lesson
2014 · 1h 28m
country: Mexico
Don Gilberto Zaragoza is a wealthy man whose life is drawing to an end. As he deliberates on the fate of his fortune, his family tries to speed up his demise.


Los Ángeles
2014 · 1h 37m
country: Mexico
Mateo, 17, prepares to migrate to Los Angeles in order to support his humble family in their small Zapotec village in southern Mexico, yet before he can depart, the leader of the local gang demands that he commit murder to become a member.


The Truth About Emanuel
2013 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.


Salma's Big Wish
2019 · 1h 35m
country: Mexico
In the Mexican town of Santa Clara, Salma, a 16 year-old orphan who never got to meet her biological parents, has spent most of her life searching for clues of their identities and whereabouts, that is until she discovers a special book that is filled with stories of the town's past and the history of it's people.


The Swirl
2016 · 1h 15m
country: Mexico
El Remolino is a tiny community on the banks of the widest river in Mexico, it is home to unusual characters whose lives oscillate between an attachment to the paradise like surroundings and the uncertainty that looms year after year, when high floods cover their community. El Remolino is a reflection upon the human capacity to adapt and coexist with nature's changes.


Mr. Pig
2016 · 1h 40m
country: Mexico
On a mission to sell his last remaining prize hog and reunite with old friends, an aging farmer abandons his foreclosed farm and journeys to Mexico. After smuggling in the hog, his estranged daughter shows up, forcing them to face their past and embark on an adventurous road trip together.


No manches, Frida 2: paraíso destruido
2019 · 1h 42m
country: Mexico
Zequi and Lucy are about to get married. Although he promises not to overdo it during the bachelor party, things get out of control.


Instructions Not Included
2013 · 2h 2m
country: United States
Valentin is Acapulco's resident playboy, until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and him heading with her out of Mexico.


Out of the Clear Blue Sky
2019 · 1h 52m
country: Mexico
Returning to Earth as an imitator, the legendary Mexican artist Pedro Infante must prove that he is no longer a womanizer to enter paradise.


31 Days
2013 · 1h 32m
country: Mexico
31 Dias (31 Days) is the story of Eva (Irán Castillo), a young and beautiful psychologist and author of a series of self-help books about modern women and their love relationships. For her next bestseller she has decided to prove her most daring theory: After the first 30 days together love ends, so the only way to have a meaningful relationship in this new millennium is when the couple part ways after the first month. At a magazine's photo session Eva meets Adam (Lorenzo Balducci), an attractive Italian photographer, and she decides he's perfect as her study subject. She will live a very intense relationship with Adam during 31 days, in order to prove her theory is right. However, what she is not aware of is that Adam is using her own advice from her books in order to make her fall in love with him and teach her a lesson. What neither of them suspects is that they'll come to learn that love has no rules.


Intimate Witness
2015 · 1h 30m
country: Argentina
Facundo is a lawyer and he´s having an affair with Violeta, his brother Rafa´s girlfriend. When Rafa finds Violeta dead in their apartment, Facundo has to help him get rid of the body. The night turns into a perverse game of spite, violence, revenge and death.


The Legend of the Black Charro
2018 · 1h 25m
country: Mexico
After releasing the Chupacabras, Leo San Juan decides that it is time to return together with his brother Nando to his grandmother's house. Halfway down the road, Charro Negro manages to confuse Leo and because of him, an innocent girl is dragged into the underworld. Leo is forced to repair the damage. His friends will come to try to help him and get out of there as soon as possible. But it is no coincidence that the Charro has chosen to involve Leo, his intentions go beyond getting a new soul.


Los Exóticos
2013 · 1h 23m
country: Mexico
The documentary portrays the life and history of Mexican wrestlers who for various reasons have decided to participate in this contact sport characterizing exotic characters. The exotic refers to the strange, the mysterious, the weird, the unusual. Particularly in wrestling exotic style refers to refined athletes in their clothing, well groomed, with a very special walk, occasionally thin effeminate. Not rude, not technical, but not rare height or size, these mannered gladiators have represented a third option within the Mexican rings, some shamelessly displaying their sexual preference and thereby defying the homophobic, or secretly homophily, mood of the wrestling fans.


Desierto
2015 · 1h 28m
country: Mexico
A group of Mexican emigrants attempts to cross the Mexican-US border. What begins as a hopeful journey becomes a harrowing, bloody and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante and his loyal Belgian Malinois dog chase the group of unarmed men and women through the treacherous borderland. In the harsh, unforgiving desert terrain, the odds are stacked firmly against them as they discover there’s nowhere to hide from the unrelenting, merciless killer.


Decadencia
2015 · 1h 31m
country: Mexico
Anabel Bolio is a beautiful and young workingwoman; Oskar Pratz is a brilliant and handsome entrepreneur. A spark of mutual attraction is inevitable and a torrid romance ensues. But what seams to be the prefect love story quickly decay and spiral downward into dangerous sexual games that lead to tragedy.


Aversión
2019 · 1h 56m
country: Mexico
Tired of being bullied, a highschool student starts to listen to his darkest thoughts in order to fit in.


Castration
2011 · 1h 23m
country: Mexico
Lourdes is almost 24, works at a casting agency and takes care of her handicapped father, since her mother abandoned them years ago without explanation. Strange for her age and despite the advice of her best friend Victoria, Lourdes has never had a boyfriend or a kiss, just an internet flirt. One day, her mother returns home, reopening old wounds


Silvestre Pantaleón
2012 · 1h 5m
country: Unknown
The story of an elderly man from the Nahuatl-speaking village of San Agustín Oapan, Guerrero, Mexico. Silvestre Pantaleón follows the protagonist as he struggles to pay for a curing ceremony and provide for his family. He dedicates himself to the only remunerative activities he knows: handcrafting rope for religious ceremonies and building seldom-used household objects that he alone still has the skills to produce. Silvestre Pantaleón is a simple, though universal, tale of aging, told with a lyrical combination of lingering imagery and quotidian detail.


We Are the Nobles
2013 · 1h 48m
country: Mexico
Tells the "riches to rags" story of the Nobles, three upper-class twenty-somethings that appear to have no limits to their checkbooks, and no direction in their lives. Until one day, their father tries to teach them a lesson by staging a financial scandal that forces the whole family to escape to an old house in the poor side of town, and leads the "kids" to do what they haven't done before: get jobs.


The Incident
2014 · 1h 42m
country: Mexico
Two parallel stories about people trapped in illogical endless spaces: two brothers and a detective locked on an infinite staircase, and a family locked on an infinite road... for over 35 years.


The Fish
2017 · 1h 22m
country: France
There’s the megalopolis of Mexico City and a tiny apartment. There’s the street singer and his mother, drowned in her prayers. There’s reality and routine and Mexico’s magic reshaping it all. There’s the inexplicable and the obvious. A contemporary Mexican tale.


The Legend of the Guanajuato Mummies
2014 · 1h 24m
country: Mexico
Three friends confront a horde of mummies, who have inexplicably awakened, and try to rescue their pal, not realizing they have fallen into a trap.


Outlaws - For Greater Glory
2012 · 2h 25m
country: Mexico
A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.


Atrocious
2010 · 1h 15m
country: Spain
Quintanilla family was found dead in their country side house. Police reported the existence of 37 hours of recorded evidence. The family traveled to their old farm house, where they investigated about the Legend of the Girl in the Garraf woods. They used to record whatever they did. Atrocious shows the last five days of this family, and the strange situations that they lived in those moments and which remain unexplained.
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Mexican cinema had a Golden Age in the 1940s and 50s and a second surge from the late 1990s, when Cuarón, del Toro, and Iñárritu moved between Mexican production and Hollywood without abandoning either.