Category
page 1Films based on Mexican novels

Like Water for Chocolate
1992 film directed by Alfonso Arau

Old Gringo
1989 film by Luis Puenzo

Tear This Heart Out
2008 film directed by Roberto Sneider

Santa
1932 film by Antonio Moreno

Tlayucan
Tlayucan is a 1962 Mexican comedy film directed by Luis Alcoriza and based on a novel by Jesús Murciélago Velázquez. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Antonieta
Antonieta is a 1982 film by Spanish director Carlos Saura, starring Isabelle Adjani and Hanna Schygulla. The film, a Mexican-Spanish French co production, was based on a novel by Andrés Henestrosa. The plot centers on the life of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, a Mexican writer who killed herself inside Paris' Notre Dame in 1931.

Dark River
1952 film by Hugo del Carril

Pedro Páramo
1967 Mexican drama film directed by Juan Rulfo

La strega in amore
1966 film by Damiano Damiani

Corazón salvaje
1968 film by Tito Davison

Pedro Páramo
2024 film directed by Rodrigo Prieto

La Viuda Negra
1977 film by Arturo Ripstein

Santa
1943 film by Norman Foster

Sombra verde
1954 film by Roberto Gavaldón