Skip to content
Category

Mexican drama films

page 1
Babel
2006 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
Pan's Labyrinth
2006 film by Guillermo del Toro
Roma
2018 film directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Biutiful
Biutiful is a 2010 psychological tragedy film directed, produced and co-written by Alejandro González Iñárritu, and starring Javier Bardem. The project marks Iñárritu's first film in his native Spanish language since his debut feature Amores perros (2000). Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro (who make up the "Three Amigos" with Iñárritu in the film industry) serve as associate producers. The film follows Uxbal, a criminal and father who is diagnosed with prostate cancer and seeks to settle his affairs and responsibilities before he dies. The title is in reference to the phonetic spelling in
The Holy Mountain
1973 film by Alejandro Jodorowsky
From Afar
2015 film by Lorenzo Vigas
Nazarín
Nazarín () is a 1959 Mexican satirical drama film directed by Luis Buñuel and co-written between Buñuel and Julio Alejandro, adapted from the eponymous novel of Benito Pérez Galdós.
Under the Volcano
1984 film directed by John Huston
Él
1953 film by Luis Buñuel
The Crime of Father Amaro
2002 film directed by Carlos Carrera
Silent Light
2007 film by Carlos Reygadas
Even the Rain
2010 film by Icíar Bollaín
The Fugitive
1947 film by John Ford, Emilio Fernández
After Lucia
2012 film by Michel Franco
La perla
1945 film by Emilio Fernández
No One Writes to the Colonel
1999 film by Arturo Ripstein
El Bruto
1952 film by Luis Buñuel
Tótem
2023 film directed by Lila Avilés
New Order
2020 film directed by Michel Franco
Museum
2018 film directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios
The Young One
1960 film by Luis Buñuel
April's Daughter
2017 film
Let's Go With Pancho Villa
1936 film by Fernando de Fuentes
Dreams
2025 film directed by Michel Franco
The Proud and the Beautiful
1953 film by Yves Allégret
Sundown
2021 film directed by Michel Franco
Under the Same Moon
2007 film by Patricia Riggen
Susana
1950 Mexican film directed by Luis Buñuel
The Children of Sanchez
1978 film directed by Hall Bartlett
La jaula de oro
2013 Mexican film directed by Diego Quemada-Díez
Ánimas Trujano
1961 Mexican film by Ismael Rodríguez
Post Tenebras Lux
2012 drama film directed by Carlos Reygadas
The Violin
2005 Film directed by Francisco Vargas
Red Bells
1982 film by Sergei Bondarchuk
My Name is Nero
2016 film by Rafi Pitts
Santa
1932 film by Antonio Moreno
Dance of the 41
2020 film directed by David Pablos
Broken Sky
2006 film by Julián Hernández
Red Bells II
1982 film by Sergei Bondarchuk
I Dream in Another Language
2017 film by Ernesto Contreras
Chronic
2015 film by Michel Franco
The Beginning and the End
1993 film directed by Arturo Ripstein
600 Miles
2015 film directed by Gabriel Ripstein
A Woman Without Love
1952 film by Luis Buñuel
The Motive
2017 film by Manuel Martín Cuenca
El río y la muerte
1955 film by Luis Buñuel
La Malquerida
1949 Mexican film directed by Emilio Fernández
Japón
Japón () is a 2002 film by the Mexican director Carlos Reygadas. It was Reygadas' debut feature, which was shot on anamorphic 16-millimeter film in a 2.66:1 screen aspect ratio.
The Paper Man
1963 film by Ismael Rodríguez
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.
Our Time
2018 film
Lake Tahoe
2008 Mexican film directed by Fernando Eimbcke
A Wall of Silence
1993 film by Lita Stantic
The Recourse to the Method
1978 film by Miguel Littín
Yesenia
1970 film by Alfredo B. Crevenna
The Kneeling Goddess
1947 film by Roberto Gavaldón
Pedro Páramo
1967 Mexican drama film directed by Juan Rulfo
Always Further On
1965 film
The Night Buffalo
2007 film by Jorge Hernández Aldana
My brother's wife
2005 film by Ricardo de Montreuil