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    Mexican Thriller Movies

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

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    Don't Leave the Kids Alone
    TMDB3.4

    Don't Leave the Kids Alone

    2026 · 1h 37m · MX

    A mother moves into a new house with her two children. One night she must leave the siblings home alone. What begins as a blast of carefree play soon turns into a claustrophobic horror story.

    Facing El Chapo
    TMDB4.4

    Facing El Chapo

    2026 · 1h 31m · MX

    Two Mexican officers must survive the final hours of their shift after crossing a ruthless cartel boss.

    Amores Perros
    TMDB3.8

    Amores Perros

    2000 · 2h 34m · MX

    A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.

    Counterattack
    TMDB4.1

    Counterattack

    2025 · 1h 25m · MX

    When a hostage rescue mission creates a new enemy, Capt. Guerrero and his elite soldiers must face an ambush by a criminal group.

    Hell's Trap
    TMDB2.5

    Hell's Trap

    1989 · 1h 16m · MX

    A group of friends go on a hunting trip on a bet to see who could kill a dangerous bear that's rumored to be killing people in the woods, but soon realize that it's not a bear that's killing people, but a deranged ex-army veteran.

    Dreams
    TMDB3.0

    Dreams

    2025 · 1h 38m · MX

    A powerful socialite and a promising ballet dancer begin a dangerous affair. When he secretly crosses the US-Mexico border, she takes desperate measures to protect their future together.

    El aguacate
    TMDB4.0

    El aguacate

    1999 · MX

    Organ trafficking runs rampant in the sinister and chaotic city of Guadalajara, Mexico. When a tabloid photographer arrives at the scene of a supposed accident, he finds himself involved in a situation where his life is at stake.

    The Arrival
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    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.

    Get the Gringo
    TMDB3.3

    Get the Gringo

    2012 · 1h 36m · US

    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.

    Maldicion Maya
    TMDB3.4

    Maldicion Maya

    1987 · 1h 30m · MX

    No overview available

    Cronos
    TMDB3.3
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    Cronos

    1993 · 1h 34m · MX

    Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable device to the grave with him. Now, an elderly antiques dealer has found the hellish machine hidden in a statue and learns about its incredible powers. The more he uses the device, the younger he becomes...but nothing comes without a price. Life after death is just the beginning as this nerve-shattering thriller unfolds and the fountain of youth turns bloody.

    Cabaret Shanghai
    TMDB2.9

    Cabaret Shanghai

    1950 · 1h 36m · MX

    Nightclub-owner/gangster discovers that his dame and his second-in-command are cheating on him.

    Savage Sunday
    TMDB2.4

    Savage Sunday

    1967 · 1h 33m · MX

    Repressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.

    La perversión

    TMDB3.1

    La perversión

    1994 · 1h 30m · MX

    A pathological murderer who focuses on models has the police bewildered. Their only hope of finding the murderer is with the help of a model, Tania. She can feel everything the victims go through in their final hours of life.

    Somos invisibles
    TMDB1.0

    Somos invisibles

    2022 · 1h 28m

    The story of a mother condemned to life in prison for murdering her husband, who is granted one last afternoon at her home with her children where each recounts dark stories from their shared past.

    Atrocious
    TMDB2.7

    Atrocious

    2010 · 1h 15m · ES

    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.

    Todo personal
    TMDB2.5

    Todo personal

    1998 · 1h 30m · MX

    When a policeman begins dreaming that he is a murderer and the homicides actually start taking, his brother is to blame.

    Mil Máscaras
    TMDB3.0

    Mil Máscaras

    1969 · 1h 29m · MX

    A committee of four wise men trains the masked hero Mil Máscaras to defend the world. When someone kidnaps the members of the committee, the hero stops at nothing to rescue them.

    The Year of the Plague
    TMDB2.6

    The Year of the Plague

    1978 · 1h 49m · MX

    A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.

    Wild Wind
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    Wild Wind

    1974 · 1h 40m · MX

    Bandits rob a church and kidnap Maria, although the priest manages to accidentally kill one of them.

    Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
    TMDB2.9

    Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

    2010 · 1h 39m · AU

    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.

    Prisión de mujeres
    TMDB2.6

    Prisión de mujeres

    1977 · 1h 43m · MX

    'Prisión de Mujeres' is a film by Fernando A. Rivero that narrates a harsh reality: the strength of women in a prison, how they lose their dignity and do not stop for anything.

    Revenge
    TMDB3.2

    Revenge

    1990 · 2h 3m · MX

    Michael ‘Jay’ Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years and he's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. He decides to visit Tiburon Mendez, a powerful but shady Mexican businessman who he once flew to Alaska for a hunting trip. Arriving at the Mendez mansion in Mexico, he is immediately surprised by the beauty and youth of Mendez’s wife, Miryea.

    Paty chula
    TMDB3.6

    Paty chula

    1991 · 38m · MX

    Paty, an employee of an advertising company, is summoned to a business dinner by Mr. Gutiérrez, a successful businessman. She cannot refuse the invitation since the signing of the contract depends on this meeting. In 1993 this film received the Ariel Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for best medium-length fiction film.

    Larceny
    TMDB1.9

    Larceny

    2017 · 1h 27m · MX

    After being busted for a heist, a former CIA contractor is sent to a Mexican prison. His former CIA boss offers him freedom if he can break into the prison vault and steal $50 Million.

    There Are No Saints
    TMDB2.5

    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.

    On the Road
    TMDB4.2

    On the Road

    2026 · 1h 33m · MX

    Veneno, a rebellious young drifter, frequents roadside diners where he sleeps with truck drivers. Urgently needing a ride, he meets Muñeco, a hard-edged driver who keeps to himself. He convinces Muñeco to take him deep into the hyper-masculine world of long-haul trucking across the north of Mexico. As they travel together and an unexpected intimacy builds between them, shadows from Veneno’s past resurface, putting both their lives at risk.

    Cosa fácil
    TMDB3.0

    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.

    La infame
    TMDB3.3

    La infame

    1954 · 1h 50m · MX

    For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a normal child.

    Dancing, salón de baile
    TMDB2.8

    Dancing, salón de baile

    1952 · 1h 40m · MX

    Some thieves confront the detectives who surprise them while robbing a factory, but manage to escape.

    Mexican Psycho
    TMDB3.6

    Mexican Psycho

    2026 · 1h 39m

    Follows an "ultra-violent and intelligent" psychopath who challenges the police by leaving a white paper rabbit at each crime scene, connecting them all.

    Death's Roulette
    TMDB3.2

    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.

    Sin Nombre
    TMDB3.8

    Sin Nombre

    2009 · 1h 36m · MX

    Sayra, an Indigenous Latina American teenage girl from Honduras, Central America, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra's life collides with a pair of Indigenous Latino American gang members from Mexico, North America who have boarded the same USA-bound train.

    Erótica
    TMDB3.3

    Erótica

    1979 · 1h 22m · MX

    Two men commit a robbery. One is caught but the other escapes. He ends his escape on a lonely and deserted beach where he meets a beautiful woman named Erótica. They start a passionate love affair that is interrupted when the other con man escapes from prison and joins them. A sexual/sentimental love triangle begins leading to a violent confrontation between the two men.

    Murderous Children
    TMDB3.6

    Murderous Children

    2018 · 2h · MX

    4 stories about 4 criminal children. Two teenagers trapped in a world full of drugs and human trafficking, another two kids bring their loved ones to the limit, other two resentful kids want to fulfill their most evil desires, and one kid who has to decide between killing or loving.

    Pesadilla Sangrienta
    TMDB3.1

    Pesadilla Sangrienta

    1990 · 1h 28m · MX

    No overview available

    Forward
    TMDB3.4

    Forward

    2016 · 1h 32m · MX

    Two assassins will face their most feared demons when fighting themselves right in the very gates of hell.

    Infection
    TMDB3.4

    Infection

    2019 · 1h 35m · VE

    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.

    Rapto sangriento
    TMDB3.8

    Rapto sangriento

    1998 · MX

    No overview available

    Actos impuros
    TMDB2.6

    Actos impuros

    1993 · 23m · MX

    Oscar works in a public bath, where he murders several people.

    About Mexican Thriller Movies

    Mexican cinema

    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.

    Thriller

    Thrillers are engineered for tension: the pace, the withholding, the sense that something is closing in. The genre blends freely with crime, horror, and science fiction, and it's where a lot of the sharpest genre craft happens.

    In this list

    Years covered
    1950–2026
    Best reviewed
    Facing El Chapo (8.8)
    Often also
    Drama, Horror, Crime

    Common questions

    What are the best Mexican thriller movies?
    By popularity across Flickfolio and TMDB, the top picks right now are Don't Leave the Kids Alone, Facing El Chapo, and Amores Perros. The full ranked list of 40 sits above — open any movie for ratings, reviews, and streaming availability.
    How is this list ranked?
    Mexican thriller movies are ordered by overall popularity, which blends how often a title is viewed, searched, and logged. It updates as viewing habits shift, so the list reflects what people are actually watching rather than a fixed critical canon.
    Where can I watch these movies?
    Every movie page lists current streaming, rental, and purchase options for your region, alongside community ratings and reviews from Flickfolio members.

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