Top 21 Best Mexican Movies [March 2025] (2025)

Top 21 must-see best mexican movies from mexican movies, including Pan's Labyrinth, The Devil's Backbone, Huesera, The Similars, Cronos, We Are What We Are, Under the Salt, Belzebuth, Evil Eye, and Cemetery of Terror ranked and rated by score.

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Mexican Movies List

1). Pan's Labyrinth (2006) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 9.11/10 | IMDB Rating: 8.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 719,513 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.5/10 | Metascore: 9.8/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $37,646,380
Mystery, Supernatural, War, Dysfunctional Family, Madness, Military, Single Moms, Witchcraft, Mexican

What is Pan's Labyrinth Streaming On?

Pan's Labyrinth is Streaming on Netflix
Plot / Synopsis: In the falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sad**tic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.Tagline: What happens when make-believe believes it's real?...

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones, Ariadna Gil

2). The Devil's Backbone (2001) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 8.17/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 72,830 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.3/10 | Metascore: 7.8/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $755,249
Supernatural, Thriller, Drama, Orphans, Revenge, Sci-Fi, Mexican

What is The Devil's Backbone Streaming On?

The Devil's Backbone is Streaming on Peacock, Tubi
Plot / Synopsis: After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets that he must uncover.Tagline: The living will always be more dangerous than the dead...

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Íñigo Garcés

3). Huesera (2022) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 7.93/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.0/10 | IMDB Votes: 6,388 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.7/10 | Metascore: 8.1/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Supernatural, Thriller, Twisted Mystery, Drama, Dysfunctional Family, Folk Horror, Pregnancy, Mexican
Plot / Synopsis: Valeria has long dreamed about becoming a mother. After learning that she's pregnant, she expects to feel happy, yet something's off...

Director: Michelle Garza Cervera
Stars: Alfonso Dosal, Sonia Couoh, Mayra Batalla, Martha Claudia Moreno, Pablo Guisa Koestinger

4). The Similars (2015) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 7.65/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.8/10 | IMDB Votes: 4,422 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.5/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Twisted Mystery, Supernatural, Madness, Mind Bender, Mexican
Plot / Synopsis: On the rainy night of October 2, 1968, eight characters waiting on a remote bus station for a bus heading to Mexico City start experiencing a strange phenomenon.Tagline: On 2015, we all become the same...

Director: Isaac Ezban
Stars: Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Cassandra Ciangherotti, Fernando Becerril, Humberto Busto, Carmen Beato

5). Cronos (1992) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 7.35/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 34,139 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.9/10 | Metascore: 7.0/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $621,392
Supernatural, Medical, Sci-Fi, Mexican

What is Cronos Streaming On?

Cronos is Streaming on HBO Max
Plot / Synopsis: A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path...

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel, Tamara Shanath

6). We Are What We Are (2010) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 6.47/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 5,174 | Rotten Tomatoes: 7.2/10 | Metascore: 6.5/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Psychological, Thriller, Cannibalism, Dysfunctional, Family, Orphans, Mexican
Plot / Synopsis: When the patriarch of the family passes away, the teenage children must take responsibility for the family chores: the preparation of the rituals, the hunting and putting the all-important meat on the table. These newfound responsibilities are even more daunting, however, when you live in the city and happen to be a family of cannibals.Tagline: Young. Wild. Hungry...

Director: Jorge Michel Grau
Stars: Francisco Barreiro, Paulina Gaitan, Alan Chávez, Carmen Beato, Adrián Aguirre

7). Under the Salt (2008) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 5.52/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,198 | MPAA Rating: R
Mexican
Plot / Synopsis: A series of grisly murders lead commander Trujillo (Humberto Zurita) to Santa Rosa de la Sal, a desert town close to a salt mine, where he meets Víctor Zepeda (Ricardo Polanco) - an enigmatic teenager who spends his free time making crude animated horror films - and who may or may not be the killer he is looking for.Tagline:...

Director: Mario Muñoz
Stars: Humberto Zurita, Plutarco Haza, Emilio Guerrero, Irene Azuela, Ricardo Polanco

8). Belzebuth (2017) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 5.2/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.0/10 | IMDB Votes: 4,496 | MPAA Rating: R
Demons, Featured Supernatural, Possession, Supernatural, Police, Religion, Satanic, Single Moms, Mexican
Plot / Synopsis: After losing his family in an extremely tragic way, Detective Ritter must investigate a massacre at a school perpetrated by a student. What seemed like a pretty clear case becomes much more dense when a priest of the Vatican appears with another point of view...

Director: Emilio Portes
Stars: Tobin Bell, Joaquín Cosio, Tate Ellington, Giovanna Zacarías, Aurora Gil

9). Evil Eye (2022) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 5.02/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,617 | MPAA Rating: R
Cabin in the Woods, Supernatural, Twisted Mystery, Mexican, Cursed, Dysfunctional Family, Folk Horror, Satanic, Wilderness, Witchcraft
Plot / Synopsis: Nala, a 13-year-old girl from the city, travels with her family to her grandmother's home in the countryside, to try to find a cure for her little sister's mysterious illness - But she'll soon find her granny is not exactly what she seems...

Director: Isaac Ezban
Stars: Ofelia Medina, Paola Miguel, Samantha Castillo, Arap Bethke, Ivanna Sofia Ferro

10). Cemetery of Terror (1985) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 4.93/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,459 | MPAA Rating: R
Mexican
Plot / Synopsis: A group of teens decide to pull a Halloween prank and steal a body from the local morgue. Unbeknownst to them, he was a vicious serial killer that worshiped Satan and was promised that he would live again. A professor who is aware of his evil must stop him before it's too late for everyone...

Director: Rubén Galindo Jr.
Stars: Hugo Stiglitz, José Gómez Parcero, Bety Robles, Leo Villanueva, Raúl Meraz

11). Mark of the Devil (2020) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 3.94/10 | IMDB Rating: 3.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 2,669 | MPAA Rating: R
Demons, Mexican, Folk Horror
Plot / Synopsis: Karl, a man who suffers a demonic possession, together with Tomás, a priest with addiction problems, embark on a hunt for demons, finding the case of Camila, a girl who attacks her family while controlled by a demon. Karl and Tomás try to save her by starting a battle; Karl has faced many beings from beyond but never one...

Director: Diego Cohen
Stars: Eduardo Noriega, Eivaut Rischen, Arantza Ruiz, Nicolasa Ortíz Monasterio, Lumi Cavazos

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