Find something to watch for every mood. Browse 4,480 of the best films ever made — voted on by the world's critics in the Sight & Sound poll — each with a trailer and up-to-date streaming options. Filter by genre, decade, country, language, runtime, or director, or explore our hand-curated film collections.
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After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.
Los Olvidados (1950)
Luis Buñuel · 22 critic votes
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Guillermo del Toro · 11 critic votes
In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.
Él (1953)
Luis Buñuel · 10 critic votes
Streaming on Criterion Channel
Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
Roma (2018)
Alfonso Cuarón · 10 critic votes
Streaming on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.
The Holy Mountain (1973)
Alejandro Jodorowsky · 7 critic votes
Free on Plex Channel
The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.
Nazarín (1959)
Luis Buñuel · 4 critic votes
Streaming on YouTube TV
A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
Amores perros (2000)
Alejandro González Iñárritu · 4 critic votes
Streaming on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.
Y tu mamá también (2001)
Alfonso Cuarón · 4 critic votes
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Silent Light (2007)
Carlos Reygadas · 4 critic votes
Free on Fandango at Home Free · Streaming on Kanopy
Johan and his family are Mennonites from the north of Mexico. Against the law of God and Man, Johan falls in love with another woman.
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955)
Luis Buñuel · 2 critic votes
Free on Tubi TV, Plex, Xumo Play · Streaming on Hoopla, Night Flight Plus, HBO Max Amazon Channel
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
Simon of the Desert (1965)
Luis Buñuel · 2 critic votes
Free on Darkroom, Mometu · Streaming on Criterion Channel
Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.
Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976)
Felipe Cazals · 2 critic votes
Streaming on Criterion Channel
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.
Santa Sangre (1989)
Alejandro Jodorowsky · 2 critic votes
Free on FlixHouse, Darkroom, Bloodstream · Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Kanopy, Fandor Amazon Channel
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless, cult leader mother, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.
The Devil's Backbone (2001)
Guillermo del Toro · 2 critic votes
Free on Tubi TV
Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.
Battle in Heaven (2005)
Carlos Reygadas · 2 critic votes
Set in Mexico City, Carlos Reygadas's sexually explicit drama centers on a man in turmoil over his past actions. Chauffer Marcos feels compelled to reveal a dark secret to his boss's daughter, Ana, a wealthy woman who works as a prostitute just for the thrill of it. Marcos confesses that he and his wife committed a crime that ended in horrible tragedy. Haunted by his past, Marcos searches for redemption.
Babel (2006)
Alejandro González Iñárritu · 2 critic votes
Streaming on Kanopy, fuboTV, Paramount+ Amazon Channel
Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.
Biutiful (2010)
Alejandro González Iñárritu · 2 critic votes
Streaming on Netflix, Kanopy, Netflix Standard with Ads
This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.
Let's Go with Pancho Villa (1936)
Fernando de Fuentes · 1 critic vote
The 1910 Mexican Revolution is on its way when six brave peasants, known as "Los Leones de San Pablo", decide to join Pancho Villa's army and help end the suffering in their community by assisting in the struggle. Together, they will endure the tragedies and hardships of a civil war.
María Candelaria (1944)
Emilio Fernández · 1 critic vote
Streaming on fuboTV
A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She is protected by a young Indian man, Lorenzo Rafael, who has fallen in love with her.
Enamorada (1946)
Emilio Fernández · 1 critic vote
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
Pueblerina (1948)
Emilio Fernández · 1 critic vote
Aurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life by marrying Paloma and working his land. But the local landowners, the brothers González, interfere with his plans.
One Day of Life (1950)
Emilio Fernández · 1 critic vote
Streaming on fuboTV
A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while the other one expects capital punishment. The prisoner's mother comes to visit his son, unaware that his former best friend is now his enemy.
Víctimas del Pecado (1951)
Emilio Fernández · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Criterion Channel, Vemox Cine Amazon Channel
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
Remember to Live (1953)
Roberto Gavaldón · 1 critic vote
In Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alone. As he is love with her voice, he is mistaken for a sister whom he marries. The teacher then goes to the capital. There she becomes part of a family of young students, who believe she is the mistress of his father, so she suffers the scorn and reproach. Over the years the parents die and she renounces to the inheritance they leave her.
Robinson Crusoe (1954)
Luis Buñuel · 1 critic vote
Free on Tubi TV, YouTube Free, Pluto TV · Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Criterion Channel, FlixFling
The titular adventurer, after defying his parents to go to sea, survives a shipwreck and becomes a castaway on a deserted island for nearly thirty years, learning to build a new life from scratch, discovering companionship with a native man he names Friday, and eventually returning to civilisation a changed man, finding wealth and new challenges.
Wuthering Heights (1954)
Luis Buñuel · 1 critic vote
Free on The Roku Channel
In 19th-century Mexico, young orphan Alejandro is adopted by the wealthy, landowning Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Catalina. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Catalina, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Eduardo, a man of means who befits her stature. Alejandro vows to win her back.
Macario (1960)
Roberto Gavaldón · 1 critic vote
Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.
The Young Girl (1960)
Luis Buñuel · 1 critic vote
Free on Xumo Play
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Los Hermanos del Hierro (1961)
Ismael Rodríguez · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Fawesome, Vemox Cine Amazon Channel
Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
The Secret Formula (1965)
Rubén Gámez · 1 critic vote
A cinematographic essay, full of surreal moments and provocative scenarios related to intellectual debates about the Mexican national character.
El Topo (1970)
Alejandro Jodorowsky · 1 critic vote
El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.
The Castle of Purity (1973)
Arturo Ripstein · 1 critic vote
A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings.
Salome (1976)
Teo Hernández · 1 critic vote
A personal interpretation of Oscar Wilde Salome from three basic elements: the light, the color, and the projection speed.
Matinée (1977)
Jaime Humberto Hermosillo · 1 critic vote
Jorge and Aarón, two young boys growing up in a quiet town often miss classes to go together to the cinema matinee. One day they are kidnapped by robbers while traveling in a truck. After the disintegration of the band, they begin to participate in the robberies until the adventure turns into something more sinister and dangerous.
The Rattlesnake (1977)
Raúl Araiza · 1 critic vote
A filmmaker is commissioned to film a documentary on the social reality of the Lacandon people in the state of Chiapas. As he enters the harsh living conditions of this indigenous community, his social conscience forces him to confront his superiors, who threaten to destroy his material.
El lugar sin límites (1978)
Arturo Ripstein · 1 critic vote
Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.
Things of Women (1978)
Rosa Martha Fernández · 1 critic vote
A young sociology student has an unintended pregnancy and is subjected to the terrible humiliation of an incompetent doctor. The girl falls ill from the poorly performed abortion and is taken by a friend to the General Hospital. Film that reports clandestine abortion in Mexico, with interviews with women who have had abortions in that hospital and shocking maternal death statistics from procedures carried out under unsafe conditions.
L'eau de la Seine (1983)
Teo Hernández · 1 critic vote
Teo Hernandez films the water of the Seine and its reflections for a film at once material and luminous.
Japón (2002)
Carlos Reygadas · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Criterion Channel
A painter from the big city goes to a remote canyon to commit suicide. To reach some calmness he stays at the farmstead of Ascen, an old religious woman. Although only a few words are spoken, love grows.
El lugar más pequeño (2011)
Tatiana Huezo · 1 critic vote
Streaming on OVID
Years after the Salvadoran military destroyed the village of Cinquera in that country’s civil war, survivors have returned to rebuild their community. Soulful, beautifully rendered, this amazing debut is an evocative testament to place, memory and the power of life to rebound from tragedy.
After Lucia (2012)
Michel Franco · 1 critic vote
Alejandra and her dad Roberto have just moved to town. She is new at school, he has a new job. Starting over is sometimes complicated when you have left so much behind.
Tempestad (2016)
Tatiana Huezo · 1 critic vote
Free on Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Runtime
A woman is recruited to a prison controlled by organized crime while another woman searches for her missing daughter. Through images that submerges us in a journey from north to south Mexico, both testimonies collide and take us to the center of a storm: a country where violence has taken control of our lives, our desires and our dreams.
Our Time (2018)
Carlos Reygadas · 1 critic vote
Free on JustWatch TV, Tubi TV, Plex · Streaming on MUBI, Kanopy, Fandor Amazon Channel
A family lives in the Mexican countryside raising fighting bulls. Esther is in charge of running the ranch, while her husband Juan, a world-renowned poet, raises and selects the beasts. Although in an open marriage, their relationship begins to crumble when Esther falls in love with an American horsebreaker and Juan is unable to control his jealousy.
The Chambermaid (2018)
Lila Avilés · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Kino Film Collection
Eve, a young chambermaid at a luxurious Mexico City hotel, confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding friendships that nourish her newfound and determined dream for a better life.
Tótem (2023)
Lila Avilés · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel
In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same.
