Thread by @Carlos_Film

Film thread: In the 2010s Mexico produced a record number of movies. With that in mind, I’ve decided to highlight 150 Mexican films (yes, so many!) from the last decade that I think are good, great, or amazing - all worth a watch.

These are just my personal choices and in no way a definitive “best of” list. There are plenty more that I probably haven’t seen yet. For the purpose of this thread I focused on films about Mexico also mostly made by Mexican directors.

That’s why some works by Tatiana Huezo, Rodrigo Plá, or Iñárritu are not listed here even if they are Mexican productions. I also included some films made about Mexico by filmmakers who are not Mexican.

There are also a couple films from the late 2000s that didn’t get released until the 2010s in Mexico and the US. To the best of my research ability, I’ve also included the English-language titles for all those that have an official one.

Hope you don’t find this too annoying and that you find a couple that spark your interest. This took longer to do than it seems, but it was also fun to reminisce about some great works. ¡Vive México! 🇲🇽 Let’s begin:

1. La 4a compañía (The 4th Company)
Dirs. Amir Galván Cervera and Mitzi Vanessa Arreola

2. 7:19
Dir. Jorge Michel Grau

3. 600 millas (600 Miles)
Dir. Gabriel Ripstein

4. Abel
Dir. Diego Luna

5. Acorazado
 Dir. Álvaro Curiel

6. Los adioses (The Eternal Feminine)
Dir. Natalia Beristáin

7. Alamar (To the Sea)
Dir. Pedro González-Rubio

8. El alien y yo (The Alien)  
 Dir. Jesús Magaña Vázquez

9. Almacenados (Warehoused)
 Dir. Jack Zagha Kababie

10. A los ojos (Through The Eyes)
 Dir. Michel Franco and Victoria Franco

11. Ana y Bruno (Ana and Bruno)
 Dir. Carlos Carrera

12. Año bisiesto (Leap Year)
Dir. Michael Rowe

13. Los años azules (The Blue Years)
 Dir. Sofía Gómez-Córdova

14. Aquí y allá (Here and There)
 Dir. Antonio Méndez Esparza

15. Asfixia (Suffocation)
 Dir. Kenya Márquez

16. Ayer maravilla fui (Yesterday Wonder I Was)
 Dir. Gabriel Mariño

17. Ayotzinapa, el paso de la tortuga (Ayotzinapa, The Turtle's Pace)
 Dir. Enrique García Meza

18. Los bañistas (Open Cage)
 Dir. Max Zunino

19. Bellas de noche (Beauties of the Night)
Dir. María Jose Cuevas

20. Bruma (Mist)
 Dir. Max Zunino

21. Las buenas hierbas (The Good Herbs)
Dir. Maria Novaro

22. Caballerango
Dir. Juan Pablo González

23. La caja vacía (The Empty Box)
Dir. Claudia Sainte-Luce

24. La calle de la amargura (Bleak Street)
Dir. Arturo Ripstein

25. La camarista (The Chambermaid)
Dir. Lila Avilés

26. Camino a Marte (Road to Mars)
Dir. Humberto Hinojosa Ozcáriz

27. Carmín tropical
Dir. Rigoberto Perezcano

28. El charro de Toluquilla (The Charro of Toluquilla)
Dir. Jose Villalobos

29. Chicogrande
Dir. Felipe Cazals

30. Chicuarotes
Dir. Gael García Bernal

31. Ciudadano Buelna
Dir. Felipe Cazals

32. El club de los insomnes
Dirs. Sergio Goyri Jr. and Joseduardo Giordano

33. Club sándwich (Club Sandwich)
Dir. Fernando Eimbcke

34. Colosio: el asesinato (Colosio: The Assassination)
Dir. Carlos Bolado

35. Cómprame un revolver (Buy Me a Gun)
Dir. Julio Hernández Cordón

36. Cría puercos (Esmeralda's Twilight)
Dir. Ehécatl García

37. Cuates de Australia (Drought)
Dir. Everardo González

38. La delgada línea amarilla (The Thin Yellow Line)
Dir. Celso García

39. Desierto
Dir. Jonas Cuaron

40. Después de Lucía (After Lucia)
Dir. Michel Franco

41. Días de gracia (Days of Grace)
Dir. Everardo Valerio Gout

42. Los días más oscuros de nosotras (The Darkest Days of Us)
Dir. Astrid Rondero

43. La dictadura perfecta (The Perfect Dictatorship)
Dir. Luis Estrada

44. Distancias cortas (Walking Distance)
Dir. Alejandro Guzmán Alvarez

45. Eco de la montaña (Echo of the Mountain)
Dir. Nicolás Echevarría

46. Eddie Reynolds y los Ángeles de Acero
Dir. Gustavo Moheno

47. Las elegidas (The Chosen Ones)
Dir. David Pablos

48. Elvira, te daría mi vida pero la estoy usando (Elvira, I'd Give You My life but I'm Using It)
Dir. Manolo Caro

49. Esto no es Berlín (This is Not Berlin)
Dir. Hari Sama

50. Estrellas solitarias (Lonely Stars)
Dir. Fernando Urdapilleta

51. Etiqueta no rigurosa (No Dress Code Required)
Dir. Cristina Herrera Borquez

52. Familia de medianoche (Midnight Family)
Dir. Luke Lorentzen

53. Fecha de caducidad (Expiration Date)
Dir. Kenya Márquez

54. Gloria
Dir. Christian Keller

55. González: falsos profetas (González)
Dir. Christian Díaz Pardo

56. Güeros
Dir. Alonso Ruizpalacios

57. La guerra de Manuela Jankovic (Manuela Jankovic's War)
Dir. Diana Cardozo

58. Guerrero
Dir. Ludovic Bonleux

59. Guten Tag, Ramón (Buen Día, Ramón)
Dir. Jorge Ramírez-Suárez

60. La habitación (Tales of Mexico)
Dirs. Natalia Beristáin, Carlos Bolado, Carlos Carrera, Ernesto Contreras, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Alfonso Pineda Ulloa, Alejandro Valle, and Iván Ávila Dueñas

61. Hasta los dientes (Armed to the Teeth)
Dir. Alberto Saúl Arnaut Estrada

62. Halley
Dir. Sebastián Hoffman

63. Heli
Dir. Amat Escalante

64. Hilda
Dir. Andres Clariond

65. El hombre que vio demasiado (The Man Who Saw Too Much)
Dir. Trisha Ziff

66. Las horas contigo (The Hours with You)
Dir. Catalina Aguilar Mastretta

67. Las horas muertas (The Empty Hours)
Dir. Aarón Fernández Lesur

68. I Hate Love
Dir. Humberto Hinojosa Ozcáriz

69. Las hijas de Abril (April's Daughter)
Dir. Michel Franco

70. El incidente (The Incident )
Dir. Isaac Ezban

71. El infierno (Hell)
Dir. Luis Estrada

72. Los insólitos peces gato (The Amazing Cat Fish)
Dir. Claudia Sainte-Luce

73. La jaula de oro (The Golden Dream)
Dir. Diego Quemada-Diez

74. El Jeremías (Jeremy)
Dir. Anwar Safa

75. Leona
Dir. Isaac Cherem

76. Levantamuertos (Death Strokes)
Dir. Miguel Nuñez

77. La libertad del diablo (Devil’s Freedom)
Dir. Everardo González

78. Llévate mis amores (All of Me)
Dir. Arturo González Villaseñor

79. Made in Bangkok
Dir. Flavio Florencio

80. Manto acuífero (The Well)
Dir. Michael Rowe

81. Maquinaria Panamericana (Panamerican Machinery)
Dir. Joaquin del Paso

82. El más buscado (Mexican Gangster)
Dir. José Manuel Cravioto

83. Matria
Dir. Fernando Llanos

84. Me estás matando, Susana (You're Killing Me Susana)
Dir. Roberto Sneider

85. Mente revólver (Revolver Mind)
Dir. Alejandro Ramírez Corona

86. Miss Bala
Dir. Gerardo Naranjo

87. Un monstruo de mil cabezas (A Monster with a Thousand Heads)
Dir. Rodrigo Plá

88. Un mundo secreto (A Secret World)
Dir. Gabriel Mariño

89. Museo
Dir. Alonso Ruizpalacios

90. Nadie sabrá nunca (No One Will Ever Know)
Dir. Jesús Torres Torres

91. Navajazo
Dir. Ricardo Silva

92. La negrada (Black Mexicans)
Dir. Jorge Pérez Solano

93. Las niñas bien (The Good Girls)
Dir. Alejandra Márquez Abella

94. Noches de Julio (Lonesome Collectors)
Dir. Axel Mishael Muñoz

95. No quiero dormir sola (She Doesn't Want to Sleep Alone)
Dir. Natalia Beristáin

96. Nosotros los Nobles (We Are the Nobles/ The Noble Family)
Dir. Gaz Alazraki

97. Nuestro tiempo (Our Time)
Dir. Carlos Reygadas

98. Obediencia perfecta (Perfect Obedience)
Dir. Luis Urquiza

99. Ocho de cada diez (Eight Out of Ten)
Dir. Sergio Umansky

100. Los ojos del mar (The Gaze of the Sea)
Dir. José Álvarez

101. El ombligo de Guie'dani (Guie'dani's Navel)
Dir. Xavi Sala

102. Las oscuras primaveras (The Obscure Spring)
Dir. Ernesto Contreras

103. Oso polar (Polar Bear)
Dir. Marcelo Tobar

104. El paciente interno (The Convict Patient)
Dir. Alejandro Solar Luna

105. Paraíso (Paradise)
Dir. Mariana Chenillo

106. Los parecidos (The Similars)
Dir. Isaac Ezban

107. Pastorela
Dir. Emilio Portes

108. El placer es mío (The Pleasure is Mine)
Dir. Elisa Miller

109. Plaza de la Soledad
Dir. Maya Goded

110. Post Tenebras Lux
Dir. Carlos Reygadas

111. Preludio
Dir. Eduardo Lucatero

112. Presunto culpable (Presumed Guilty)
Dir. Roberto Hernández and Geoffrey Smith

113. Purgatorio: Viaje al corazón de la frontera (Purgatorio: A Journey Into the Heart of the Border)
Dir. Rodrigo Reyes

114. Quebranto (Disrupted)
Dir. Roberto Fiesco

115. Las razones del corazón (The Reasons of the Heart)
Dir. Arturo Ripstein

116. La región salvaje (The Untamed)
Dir. Amat Escalante

117. Resurrección (Resurrection)
Dir. Eugenio Polgovsky

118. Los reyes del pueblo que no existe (Kings of Nowhere)
Dir. Betzabé García

119. Rezeta
Dir. Fernando Frías

120. Roma
Dir. Alfonso Cuarón

121. Rush Hour
Dir. Luciana Kaplan

122. Sabrás qué hacer conmigo (You Will Know What to Do with Me)
Dir. Katina Medina Mora

123. El Santos vs. La Tetona Mendoza
Dirs. Alejandro Lozano, Andrés Couturier, and Álvaro Curiel

124. Semana Santa
Dir. Alejandra Márquez Abella

125. Soles negros (Dark Suns)
Dir. Julien Elie

126. Somos lo que hay (We Are What We Are)
Dir. Jorge Michel Grau

127. Somos Mari Pepa (We Are Mari Pepa)
Dir. Samuel Kishi

128. Sopladora de hojas (Leaf Blower)
Dir. Alejandro Iglesias Mendizábal

129. El sueño del Mara'akame (Mara'akame's Dream)
Dir. Federico Cecchetti

130. El sueño de Lú (The Dream of Lu)
Dir. Hari Sama

131. Sueño en otro idioma (I Dream In Another Language)
Dir. Ernesto Contreras

132. Sunú
Dir. Teresa Camou Guerrero

133. Tamara y la catarina (Tamara and the Ladybug)
Dir. Lucia Carreras

134. Tempestad
Dir. Tatiana Huezo

135. Tenemos la carne (We Are the Flesh)
Dir. Emiliano Rocha Minter

136. Te prometo anarquía (I Promise You Anarchy)
Dir. Julio Hernández Cordón

137. Tercera llamada (Last Call)
Dir. Francisco Franco Alba

138. Tesoros
Dir. Maria Novaro

139. Tiempo compartido (Time Share)
Dir. Sebastián Hoffman

140. Tiempos felices (Happy Times)
Dir. Luis Javier M. Henaine

141. Las tinieblas (The Darkness)
Dir. Daniel Castro Zimbrón

142. La tirisia (Perpetual Sadness)
Dir. Jorge Pérez Solano

143. Todo lo demás (Everything Else)
Dir. Natalia Almada

144. Los últimos cristeros (The Last Christeros)
Dir. Matías Meyer

145. El velador (The Night Watchman)
Dir. Natalia Almada

146. La vida inmoral de la pareja ideal (Tales of an Immoral Couple)
Dir. Manolo Caro

147. La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas (The Precocious & Brief Life of Sabina Rivas)
Dir. Luis Mandoki

148. El vigilante (The Night Guard)
Dir. Diego Ros

149. Vuelven (Tigers Are Not Afraid)
Dir. Issa López

150. Workers
Dir. José Luis Valle

That concludes this long thread. Hopefully you feel like checking out some of these Mexican films and find the ones that are gems to you. Also, I’m sure I missed some great ones, so don’t hesitate to mention which of your favorites I didn’t include. 🇲🇽❤️