Favorites Mexicanas y spanish speaking
by beckysalass | created - 30 Sep 2020 | updated - 18 Mar 2023 | PublicMovies I loved from my country Mexico and other Spanish language
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1. And Your Mother Too (2001)
R | 106 min | Drama
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life and each other.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ana López Mercado
Votes: 128,903 | Gross: $13.62M
2. Amores Perros (2000)
R | 154 min | Drama, Thriller
An amateur dog fighter, a supermodel, and a derelict assassin, all separately struggling to find love, find their lives transformed by a devastating car wreck in Mexico City.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal, Goya Toledo, Álvaro Guerrero
Votes: 252,950 | Gross: $5.38M
3. Biutiful (2010)
R | 148 min | Drama, Romance
A man dying of cancer tries his best to leave the world on his own terms.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib, Guillermo Estrella
Votes: 94,629 | Gross: $5.10M
4. Roma (2018)
R | 135 min | Drama
A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta
Votes: 169,841
5. The Swamp (2001)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
The life of two women and their families in a small provincial town of Salta, Argentina.
Director: Lucrecia Martel | Stars: Mercedes Morán, Graciela Borges, Martín Adjemián, Leonora Balcarce
Votes: 7,870 | Gross: $0.10M
6. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy
In 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world.
Director: Víctor Erice | Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent, Isabel Tellería
Votes: 20,681
7. The Young and the Damned (1950)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, as the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Alfonso Mejía, Roberto Cobo, Estela Inda, Miguel Inclán
Votes: 22,011
8. The Art of Return (2020)
91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Noemí is a young actress who returns home after 6 years in New York for an audition that could change her career. During the first 24 hours back in Madrid, she has a series of encounters that teach her how to cherish the seasons of life.
Director: Pedro Collantes | Stars: Macarena García, Nacho Sánchez, Ingrid García Jonsson, Mireia Oriol
Votes: 506
9. Red Dawn (1990)
96 min | Drama, Thriller
A Claustrophobic experience which involves a Mexican middle class family into the atrocities made by wild and heartless army forces whose main objective seems to be students who do not permit the 1968's Olimpic games' to develop normally.
Director: Jorge Fons | Stars: Héctor Bonilla, María Rojo, Jorge Fegán, Ademar Arau
Votes: 2,038
10. Midaq Alley (1995)
Unrated | 140 min | Drama, Romance
The lives of men and women living on Callejón de los Milagros in Mexico City.
Director: Jorge Fons | Stars: Ernesto Gómez Cruz, María Rojo, Salma Hayek, Bruno Bichir
Votes: 3,362
11. Sin Nombre (2009)
R | 96 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A young Honduran girl and a Mexican gangster are united in a journey across the U.S. border.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga | Stars: Paulina Gaitan, Marco Antonio Aguirre, Leonardo Alonso, Karla Cecilia Alvarado
Votes: 34,060 | Gross: $2.53M
12. Silent Light (2007)
Not Rated | 136 min | Drama, Romance
In a Mennonite community in Mexico, a father's faith is tested when he falls in love with a new woman.
Director: Carlos Reygadas | Stars: Cornelio Wall, Miriam Toews, Maria Pankratz, Peter Wall
Votes: 6,839 | Gross: $0.05M
13. Heli (2013)
Not Rated | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Heli must try and protect his young family when his 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world. He must battle against the drug cartel that have been angered as well as the corrupt police force.
Director: Amat Escalante | Stars: Armando Espitia, Andrea Vergara, Linda González, Juan Eduardo Palacios
Votes: 5,388
14. The Bastards (2008)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Jesus and Fausto, two low-paid Mexican laborers working illegally across the border in LA, are offered big money and a sawn-off shotgun to break into the home of a drug addicted single mother and take her hostage.
Director: Amat Escalante | Stars: Jesus Moises Rodriguez, Rubén Sosa, Nina Zavarin, Kenny Johnston
Votes: 1,519
15. A Decent Woman (2016)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama
A housemaid, working in an exclusive gated community in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, embarks on a journey of sexual and mental liberation in a nudist swinger-club boarding the high security walls.
Director: Lukas Valenta Rinner | Stars: Iride Mockert, Andrea Strenitz, Martín Shanly, Mariano Sayavedra
Votes: 515
16. Intimate Stories (2002)
Unrated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
Three people and a baby set off on separate journeys, along the same road; their disparate dreams and stories intertwine amidst the breathtaking deserted Patagonic route.
Director: Carlos Sorin | Stars: Javier Lombardo, Antonio Benedicti, Javiera Bravo, Mariela Díaz
Votes: 5,390 | Gross: $0.10M
17. Snow White (2012)
PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Fantasy
A twist on the Snow White fairy tale that is set in 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.
Director: Pablo Berger | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Emilio Gavira, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ángela Molina
Votes: 11,639 | Gross: $0.28M
18. The Headless Woman (2008)
Unrated | 87 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After hitting something with her car, a bourgeois Argentine woman's life slowly descends into paranoia and isolation, as she fears she may have killed someone.
Director: Lucrecia Martel | Stars: María Onetto, Claudia Cantero, César Bordón, Daniel Genoud
Votes: 5,729 | Gross: $0.10M
19. The August Virgin (2019)
125 min | Drama
Eva is not satisfied with her life. In an act of faith, she decides to stay in Madrid over the summer, when all the other locals leave. August offers her a chance to start from scratch.
Director: Jonás Trueba | Stars: Itsaso Arana, Vito Sanz, Isabelle Stoffel, Joe Manjón
Votes: 1,554
20. What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
The vicissitudes of Gloria, a neurotic housewife, and her family's peculiar characters.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Carmen Maura, Gonzalo Suárez, Luis Hostalot, Ryo Hiruma
Votes: 11,132
21. The Milk of Sorrow (2009)
94 min | Drama, Music
Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. ... See full summary »
Director: Claudia Llosa | Stars: Magaly Solier, Susi Sánchez, Efraín Solís, Marino Ballón
Votes: 7,348 | Gross: $0.01M
22. Jamón, Jamón (1992)
Unrated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When a mother disapproves of her son's lover, she hires an underwear model and former bullfighter to seduce her away.
Director: Bigas Luna | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Stefania Sandrelli, Anna Galiena, Juan Diego
Votes: 15,092 | Gross: $0.94M
23. Whisky (2004)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with ... See full summary »
Directors: Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll | Stars: Andrés Pazos, Mirella Pascual, Jorge Bolani, José Pedro Bujaruz
Votes: 6,717
24. White Elephant (2012)
Not Rated | 105 min | Crime, Drama
While working alongside his long-time friend and colleague in building a hospital for the residents of a Buenos Aires shantytown, a troubled priest finds solace in a young, atheist social worker.
Director: Pablo Trapero | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Jérémie Renier, Martina Gusmán, Federico Barga
Votes: 5,430 | Gross: $0.01M
25. El bonaerense (2002)
105 min | Crime, Drama
A young locksmith is forced to leave his home and family to join the Buenos Aires police force.
Director: Pablo Trapero | Stars: Jorge Román, Mimí Ardú, Darío Levy, Hugo Anganuzzi
Votes: 2,146
26. Todas las azafatas van al cielo (2002)
93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
This is the story of Julián, an ophthalmologist who is upset due his wife recent death (a flight-attendant) and Teresa (an unhappy stewardess). Julián travels to Ushuaia, where he met his ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Burman | Stars: Alfredo Casero, Florencia Loj, Valentina Akiyama, Sergio Boris
Votes: 750
27. The Innocence (2019)
92 min | Drama
Lis enjoys one more summer with her friends. The town's lack of intimacy, enforced by scandalmonger neighbours, means she keeps her relationship status secret, but the end of summer arrives with an unpleasant surprise.
Director: Lucía Alemany | Stars: Carmen Arrufat, Laia Marull, Sergi López, Joel Bosqued
Votes: 721
28. Truman (2015)
TV-14 | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
Julián receives an unexpected visit from his friend Tomás, who lives in Canada. The two men, accompanied by Julián's faithful dog, Truman, will share emotional and surprising moments prompted by Julián's complicated situation.
Director: Cesc Gay | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Javier Cámara, Dolores Fonzi, Troilo
Votes: 13,900 | Gross: $0.21M
29. Silvia Prieto (1999)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
A woman in her late-twenties called Silvia Prieto wants to improve herself. Her discovery of a second person also called Silvia Prieto will change her life forever. Maybe not the changes she hoped for.
Director: Martín Rejtman | Stars: Rosario Bléfari, Valeria Bertuccelli, Vicentico, Marcelo Zanelli
Votes: 1,601
30. Glue (2006)
Unrated | 110 min | Drama, Romance
Aimless and uncertain, a group of teenagers go through an intense coming-of-age experience in their small desert town.
Director: Alexis Dos Santos | Stars: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Nahuel Viale, Inés Efron, Verónica Llinás
Votes: 1,589
31. Battle in Heaven (2005)
Unrated | 98 min | Crime, Drama
Marcos lusts after his boss's promiscuous daughter, but after botching an extortion scheme, he becomes wracked with guilt.
Director: Carlos Reygadas | Stars: Marcos Hernández, Anapola Mushkadiz, Bertha Ruiz, David Bornstein
Votes: 6,645 | Gross: $0.07M
32. Journey to a Mother's Room (2018)
90 min | Drama
A daughter leaves home for the first time. Her mother, left behind, doesn't know how to fill the empty nest.
Director: Celia Rico Clavellino | Stars: Lola Dueñas, Anna Castillo, Noemi Hopper, Ana Mena
Votes: 1,080
33. Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
R | 105 min | Drama, Romance
When tradition prevents her from marrying the man she loves, a young woman discovers she has a unique talent for cooking.
Director: Alfonso Arau | Stars: Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torné, Mario Iván Martínez
Votes: 18,844 | Gross: $21.67M
34. The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy
The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Enrique Rambal, José Baviera
Votes: 35,555
35. Lisboa (1999)
97 min | Crime, Thriller
Joao sells video tapes in road bars between Portugal and Spain. One day he finds a middle aged woman in the middle of nowhere. Somebody is looking for her and she has to escape to Lisboa. ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Hernández | Stars: Sergi López, Carmen Maura, Federico Luppi, Antonio Birabent
Votes: 488
36. Todas las canciones hablan de mí (2010)
107 min | Comedy
A boy who tries to forget a girl, a story far more difficult to bear, especially when the girl you just separated from comes back again in each of the memories of your past and you feel that "all the love songs talk about me".
Director: Jonás Trueba | Stars: Oriol Vila, Bárbara Lennie, Ramon Fontserè, Ángela Cremonte
Votes: 698
37. Dark Blue Almost Black (2006)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Just as his childhood sweetheart Natalia returns, his infertile brother Antonio asks Jorge to impregnate Paula, Antonio's imprisoned girlfriend.
Director: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo | Stars: Quim Gutiérrez, Raúl Arévalo, Marta Etura, Antonio de la Torre
Votes: 8,597 | Gross: $0.00M
38. Marshland (2014)
TV-MA | 105 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Two cops lost in the deep south of Spain. One serial killer to catch. A lot of secrets and lies to disclose.
Director: Alberto Rodríguez | Stars: Javier Gutiérrez, Raúl Arévalo, María Varod, Perico Cervantes
Votes: 36,464
39. Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle (2017)
90 min | Documentary
Spanish actor Gustavo Salmerón steps behind the camera to capture the winsome eccentricities of his extraordinary mother Julita, who had three dreams: having lots of kids, owning a monkey, and living in a castle.
Director: Gustavo Salmerón | Stars: Julita Salmerón, Antonio García Cabanes, Ramón García Salmerón, Paloma García Salmerón
Votes: 1,681
40. Zama (2017)
Unrated | 115 min | Drama, History
Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires.
Director: Lucrecia Martel | Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele, Juan Minujín
Votes: 7,144 | Gross: $0.20M
41. Magical Girl (2014)
127 min | Drama, Thriller
The father of a terminally ill girl is determined to grant his daughter's last wish, a ridiculously expensive collectors' costume from a Japanese TV series. The request will drive him into a journey within his city's dark underbelly.
Director: Carlos Vermut | Stars: José Sacristán, Marina Andruix, Raimundo de los Reyes, Lucía Pollán
Votes: 7,490
42. Pain and Glory (2019)
R | 113 min | Drama
A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as the past and present come crashing down around him.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Nora Navas
Votes: 63,131
43. A Gun in Each Hand (2012)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
A comedy centered on eight men in their 40s, all with identity crises.
Director: Cesc Gay | Stars: Javier Cámara, Ricardo Darín, Eduard Fernández, Jordi Mollà
Votes: 3,383
44. All of Me (2014)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary that tells the stories of the women who live in La Patrona, a Mexican village that is situated by the tracks of a train from Central America that brings many migrants North to the U.S..
Director: Arturo González Villaseñor
Votes: 265
45. The Golden Dream (2013)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
A road movie about teenage immigrants and their journey to the U.S.
Director: Diego Quemada-Diez | Stars: Brandon López, Rodolfo Domínguez, Karen Martínez, Carlos Chajon
Votes: 5,131
46. A Thief's Daughter (2019)
102 min | Drama
Her father is a convicted, her boyfriend rejects her, her brother is troublemaker, her baby needs money and she's half-deaf of one ear. Bad times to be Sara.
Director: Belén Funes | Stars: Greta Fernández, Eduard Fernández, Àlex Monner, Tomás Martín
Votes: 1,045
47. Can't Say Goodbye (2017)
96 min | Drama
Carla gets a call from the small town where she grew up in the South of Spain. Her father, who she hasn't spoken with in many years, is very ill. She refuses to face it and decides, against... See full summary »
Director: Lino Escalera | Stars: Juan Diego, Nathalie Poza, Lola Dueñas, Pau Durà
Votes: 518
48. Wounded (I) (2013)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
Ana, 30, is an ambulance driver. Though good at her job, she has problems relating in her personal life. She doesn't know it, but she suffers from a condition known by psychiatrists as ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Franco | Stars: Marian Álvarez, Rosana Pastor, Manolo Solo, Andrés Gertrúdix
Votes: 1,344
49. The Bride (2015)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance
As the Bride and the Groom prepare for the wedding in the pale desert, a tale of unappeased desires, forbidden yearnings, and conflicted choices unfolds. Now, three lovers stand powerless before the true nature of man. Is fate unavoidable?
Director: Paula Ortiz | Stars: Inma Cuesta, Álex García, Asier Etxeandia, Luisa Gavasa
Votes: 3,511
50. Tempestad (2016)
105 min | Documentary
The emotional journeys of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico and of the love, dignity and resistance that allowed them to survive.
Director: Tatiana Huezo
Votes: 888
51. Monos (2019)
R | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
On a remote mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
Director: Alejandro Landes | Stars: Sofia Buenaventura, Julián Giraldo, Karen Quintero, Laura Castrillón
Votes: 18,928
52. Cocote (2017)
TV-14 | 106 min | Drama
An Evangelical Christian man attends the funeral services of his father in his hometown, where he has to participate in religious rites that clash with his beliefs and finds himself pressured to take revenge on the murderer.
Director: Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias | Stars: Vicente Santos, Jose Cruz, Yuberbi de la Rosa, José Miguel Fernández
Votes: 376
53. Beautiful Youth (2014)
102 min | Drama, Romance
Natalia and Carlos, both aged 20, are in love and struggling to survive in today's Spain. Their limited resources prevent them from getting ahead as they'd like to. They have no great ... See full summary »
Director: Jaime Rosales | Stars: Ingrid García Jonsson, Karlos Sastre, Inma Nieto, Fernando Barona
Votes: 1,315
54. The Chambermaid (2018)
TV-MA | 102 min | Drama
A look at the working environment of a chambermaid in one of Mexico City's most luxurious hotels.
Director: Lila Avilés | Stars: Gabriela Cartol, Agustina Quinci, Teresa Sánchez, Alán Uribe
Votes: 2,080 | Gross: $0.08M
55. Official Competition (2021)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama
A wealthy businessman hires a famous filmmaker to help make a smash hit film.
Directors: Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Oscar Martínez, José Luis Gómez
Votes: 14,720
56. Maixabel (2021)
115 min | Biography, Drama
11 years after her husband was killed by the Basque group ETA, Maixabel Lasa agrees to a request to meet one of the assassins who is in prison, in an attempt to find some kind of restorative justice.
Director: Icíar Bollaín | Stars: Blanca Portillo, Luis Tosar, María Cerezuela, Urko Olazabal
Votes: 3,435
57. 20,000 Species of Bees (2023)
128 min | Drama
During a summer in a village house linked to beekeeping, an eight-year-old and her mother experience revelations that will change their lives forever.
Director: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren | Stars: Sofía Otero, Patricia López Arnaiz, Ane Gabarain, Itziar Lazkano
Votes: 3,367
58. Matria (2023)
99 min | Drama
A woman in a Galician fishing village is struggling to get by with hard work and rough charm. With her 18-year-old daughter now ready to stand on her own two feet, Ramona begins to question her life up to this point.
Director: Álvaro Gago | Stars: María Vázquez, Santi Prego, Tatán, Susana Sampedro
Votes: 556
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