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


Desire
2026 · 1h 37m · MX
Lucero’s life appears immaculate: a wealthy household, a devoted husband, and two children who embody the promise of a perfect family. Yet beneath this surface simmers a quiet dissatisfaction. When Matías, a young swimming coach hired by her husband, enters their lives, Lucero finds herself pulled into a risky and consuming relationship. As secrecy, desire, and jealousy tighten their grip, the boundaries within the family begin to collapse, placing mother and daughter in a dangerous emotional triangle that threatens to shatter everything Lucero has built.


El mudo
2013 · 1h 26m · PE
Constantino Zegarra is a principled Peruvian government official who stands apart from his corrupt colleagues. Throughout his two-decade career, he has steadfastly resisted corruption, driven by the memory of his father's impoverished end due to corruption. At forty, he is a dedicated family man with a teenage daughter who challenges his views. One morning, he survives a gunshot to the throat, rendering him mute. Upon recovery, he is certain that someone from his office attempted to kill him.


The Arrival
1996 · 1h 55m · MX
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.


Macabre Serenade
1968 · 1h 29m · MX
Relatives of a recently deceased man meet at his eerie castle for a reading of the will. They encounter a sinister piano player who turns out to be a toy maker, and his toys are imbued with murderous intentions.


Maldicion Maya
1987 · 1h 30m · MX
No overview available


There Are No Saints
2022 · 1h 45m · US
A man is imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. When his wife is murdered and his son kidnapped and taken to Mexico, he devises an elaborate and dangerous plan to rescue his son and avenge the murder.


Cosa fácil
1982 · 1h 55m · MX
This is a story of revenge, as detective Shayne's own clients sabotage his actions, and leave him blind in one eye. The cases then become personal and Shayne vows to destroy the guilty.


Death's Roulette
2023 · 1h 30m · MX
Seven strangers wake up in a mansion in the middle of nowhere to discover they are part of a twisted game. They will have 60 minutes to choose one person to die; otherwise, all of them will be murdered. As the clock ticks down, the most lurid secrets will come to light, and they’ll discover they are all connected by a dark past.


Tragic Jungle
2020 · 1h 36m · CO
Deep in the jungle, a group of Mexican gum workers crosses their path with Agnes, a mysterious Belizean woman. Her presence enlivens the fantasies and desires of those men, without knowing that they have woken up an ancient Mayan legend.


Stolen Heaven
1951 · 1h 41m · MX
A young woman loses her mind when she finds out that her uncle and his boyfriend met in a train accident.


Dulce espiritu
1987 · 47m · MX
Mexican TV film about spiritism. Part of the series "Cuentos de Madrugada".


The Crying of Malintzin
2022 · 1h 22m · MX
Nacho and Memo start working as night watchmen in a Tequila factory. It is a stormy night. As soon as they recognize themselves alone in the middle of the huge industry, they get ready to drink and then they discover an intruder inside the facilities. It is Don Catarino, an old beggar who lives off the mercy of the employees and is the one who warns them that a lost soul usually appears in that factory on stormy nights. He pleads with them to ignore her and not allow her to involve them in her troubles. As soon as he disappears, a woman asks them for help to shelter from the storm.


Satanic Pandemonium
1975 · 1h 29m · MX
Sister Maria is known in the convent for her good works and charity, but, in the secret depths of her sexual fantasies, she is tormented by visions of another world - a world where her forbidden passions are allowed to run free. In this world Satan is her master. As her acts of violence and blasphemy mount, Maria realizes that she has been chosen by the Devil to destroy the convent and lead her sister nuns into hell!


Tormento
2022 · 8m · MX
Vin, a talented painter, is frustrated that he doesn't know how to finish his next great work, giving up on it. Seth, his self-centered and careless friend, visits him to rub his next great work in his face; thanks to Seth, Vin finds the final touch of his work but at a high cost.


Amber
1994 · 1h 31m · MX
Old Max remembers the time as a child when he was taken to the jungle where he met a prophet, a circus man and other weird characters.


La gota de sangre
1950 · 1h 45m · MX
Did Rodolfo just marry a serial murderess?


Fatal Trap
1961 · 1h 27m · MX
Part of a series of films based on portions of the Manuel Payno novel "El fisto del diablo." The others are El fistol del diablo, Juego diabólico and El ataúd infernal. All were directed by Fernando Fernández and star Roberto Cañedo.


Rito terminal
2000 · 1h 50m · MX
Mateo loses his shadow when making a documentary in an indigenous community. He enters a magical and unknown world, losing the conviction to continue living in the city.


Lovers of the Lord of the Night
1986 · 1h 30m · MX
Venusita falls in love with the son of a wealthy family whose mother sends her son off to the United States in order to keep the two apart. Not to be rejected so easily, Venusita visits Saurina the sorceress who comes up with a spell that kills off the merchant and zaps the son back home, but Venusita's problems are far from over.


Silencio
2018 · 1h 38m · MX
In order to save her son's life, Ana embarks on a quest to find a powerful stone from the Zone of Silence in Mexico. Someone finds out the power the stone possesses and believes it is a power worth killing for.


Murder in Three Acts
1986 · 1h 34m · MX
In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.


Conversaciones
2020 · 1h 37m · MX
10 fantastic and dark conversations tell us the story of a Mexican family through the relations and conflicts of two brothers.


The Curse of Nostradamus
1961 · 1h 19m · MX
An aristocratic vampire swears an oath to kill the enemies who killed his father. In order to terrify them even further, he warns each one when he is coming for them.


(Telephone)
2023 · 1h 38m · MX
The life of a telephone line told through a chain of 72 international phone calls. Starting with a toy phone that wants to possess the soul of a child and ending with a psychopath who ends up destroying this long chain of phone calls.


Who Killed Grandpa?
1972 · 1h 25m · MX
A man dies of a heart attack and his wife hides the body in order to continue collecting pension.


Zapatos
2018 · MX
No overview available


Sirena
2021 · 1h 20m · MX
It is Easter in town and magic and mystery come to life as a commander makes inquiries about a man who has been found dead. His inquiries begin in a brothel where a singer who calls herself Soledad, who is hidden by Coral, the owner of the place, entertains. The singer seems to carry from birth the curse of the sirens: "Every man who falls in love with her will die" and unless she breaks it she must always run away, without escaping her own destiny.


Mientras México duerme
1938 · 1h 37m · MX
No overview available


Los visitados
2020 · MX
No overview available


Edna
2020 · 1h 57m · MX
Two distanced brothers meet again after some years of silence. In the funeral, they hear about a secret society called Edna, related with forgery and art robbery. They're looking for them to kill the two brothers


La trajinera del terror
2005 · 1h 29m · MX
Seven teenagers travel by a trajinera over Xochimilco waters. Two of them use a witchboard and become possessed. The teenagers soon are arrive on an island, where one by one are murdered by their possessed friends.


Weddings of fire
1951 · 1h 27m · MX
When the doctor's city girlfriend falls ill, a handsome rancher takes her to his ranch to get better. It's a disastrous decision, as he and the lady begin to fall in love and secretly meet. As the wedding day approaches, Rodolfo tries to make her forget about the doctor for the sake of his love.


Crimen Por Muerte
1996 · MX
Brenda has murdered her movie director husband "Bosco" out of fear that he was going to kill her. Brenda's sister Monica helps her get rid of his body and go on with the shooting of the film they're all making, but it seems Bosco has not quite died since he begins to appear from a far during filming & haunting Brenda everywhere else she goes.


Herod's Law
1999 · 2h 3m · MX
In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.


Moronga
2018 · 1h 39m · MX
A psychotic US marine becomes an agent of chaos in a village in southern Mexico during a social uprising. On his journey towards Death, he discovers the truth behind a local tragedy involving a mysterious pregnant girl, and decides to do something about it... but gets it all wrong.


Scared to Death
1958 · 1h 27m · MX
A young woman hires Viruta y Capulina to find a notorious jewel thief, known as Rostov.


Huesera: The Bone Woman
2023 · 1h 37m · MX
Valeria's joy at becoming a first-time mother is quickly taken away when she's cursed by a sinister entity. As danger closes in, she's forced deeper into a chilling world of dark magic that threatens to consume her.


Morir de madrugada
1980 · 1h 30m · MX
A successful lawyer has his life shattered when his beautiful wife is found murdered. An investigation reveals she was lying to him and leading a double life... but who killed her?


La extraña pasajera
1953 · 1h 23m · MX
During a long train trip, the Police has discovered jewelries in the personal bag of an actress, but she turns out to be innocent.


Even the Wind Is Afraid
1968 · 1h 28m · MX
A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.
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.
Mystery films are structured around withheld information, trusting the audience to work alongside the investigator. The genre ranges from cozy whodunits to bleak, unresolved character studies.