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Las 100 mejores películas mexicanas de la historia según Sector Cine

by mariojuarezm • Created 1 year ago • Modified 1 year ago
En junio de 2020, el desaparecido sitio web Sector Cine, publicó una actualización de la lista las 100 mejores películas del cine mexicano de la revista Somos. Para realizar la selección, el portal invitó a 27 especialistas en cinematografía mexicana, entre los que destacan Rafael Aviña, escritor y crítico de cine (quien también participó en el listado de 1994); Iván Morales, director editorial de Cine Premiere; Cristina Bringas, fundadora del Festival Internacional de Cine Documental Doqumenta; Hugo Villa, director de la Filmoteca UNAM; Alex Muñoz Barba, cineasta y Pepe Ruiloba, crítico de cine en Reforma y programador de festivales de cine.
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  • The Young and the Damned (1950)

    1. The Young and the Damned

    19501h 20mNot Rated
    8.2 (23K)
    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.
    DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsAlfonso MejíaRoberto CoboEstela Inda
    https://www.primevideo.com/region/na/detail/0FG659Z7BT2ZI55V7L605UQLJV
  • The Outsiders (1967)

    2. The Outsiders

    19671h 35m
    7.8 (747)
    A rich, aristocratic engaged couple (Julissa, Enrique Alvarez Felix) abandons a dinner party to enjoy a night on the town with an urban gang known as Los Caifanes.
    DirectorJuan IbáñezStarsJulissaEnrique Álvarez FélixÓscar Chávez
    https://archive.org/details/los-caifanes-1967
  • The Exterminating Angel (1962)

    3. The Exterminating Angel

    19621h 35mNot Rated
    8.0 (37K)
    The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.
    DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsSilvia PinalJacqueline AndereEnrique Rambal
    https://www.criterionchannel.com/the-exterminating-angel
  • Ignacio López Tarso in Macario (1960)

    4. Macario

    19601h 31m
    8.3 (4.8K)
    Poor and hungry peasant Macario wishes to have a good meal for All Saint's Day. After his wife cooks him a turkey he has three apparitions: The Devil, God, and the Death.
    DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsIgnacio López TarsoPina PellicerEnrique Lucero
    https://www.primevideo.com/region/na/detail/0RZZFLK3BUSBB4XUYMUAGZMHQZ
  • The Place Without Limits (1978)

    5. The Place Without Limits

    19781h 50mNot Rated
    7.5 (1.8K)
    Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and the dreams of whores collide in a Mexican town. Rich, elderly Don Alejo is poised to sell the town for a profit, needing only to buy a whorehouse to own all the buildings and close the deal. It's owned by a man and his daughter: Manuelita is gay, aging, afraid; he cross-dresses and entertains as a flamenco dancer; he wants to sell and leave. His daughter wants to stay. The return of Pancho complicates things: he's a hothead Alejo tries to control and he scared Manuelita the year before. Things come to a head as Pancho breaks Alejo's hold on him, then flirts and dances with Manuelita and finds himself at risk of being called a "maricón".
    DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsRoberto CoboFernando SolerLucha Villa
    https://mubi.com/en/mx/films/the-place-without-limits
  • Tempestad (2016)

    6. Tempestad

    20161h 45m78Metascore
    7.8 (967)
    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.
    DirectorTatiana Huezo
    https://mubi.com/en/mx/films/tempestad
  • Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976)

    7. Canoa: A Shameful Memory

    19761h 55mNot Rated
    7.8 (2K)
    A group of university employees arrive in a small village during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being university students who're attempting to spread communism and mobilizes the townspeople to lynch them.
    DirectorFelipe CazalsStarsEnrique LuceroSalvador SánchezErnesto Gómez Cruz
    https://www.criterionchannel.com/canoa-a-shameful-memory
  • Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal, and Goya Toledo in Amores Perros (2000)

    8. Amores Perros

    20002h 34mR83Metascore
    8.0 (268K)
    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.
    DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsEmilio EchevarríaGael García BernalGoya Toledo
    https://www.netflix.com/title/60020243
  • The Secret Formula (1965)

    9. The Secret Formula

    196542mShort
    7.7 (377)
    An irreverent essay, unified only by the author's unique voice, full of surreal moments and provocative scenarios related to intellectual debates about the Mexican national character.
    DirectorRubén GámezStarsJosé CastilloManuel GaitánPilar Islas
    https://vimeo.com/502806550
  • Marina de Tavira, Marco Graf, Yalitza Aparicio, Daniela Demesa, Diego Cortina Autrey, and Carlos Peralta in Roma (2018)

    10. Roma

    20182h 15mR96Metascore
    7.6 (175K)
    A year in the life of a upper-middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
    DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsYalitza AparicioMarina de TaviraDiego Cortina Autrey
    https://www.netflix.com/title/80240715
  • Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, and Maribel Verdú in Y tu mamá también (2001)

    11. Y tu mamá también

    20011h 46m89Metascore
    7.7 (135K)
    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.
    DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsMaribel VerdúGael García BernalDaniel Giménez Cacho
    https://archive.org/details/ytumamadisc1/ytumamadisc1.mp4
  • Nosotros los pobres (1948)

    12. Nosotros los pobres

    19482h 8mNot Rated
    7.8 (1.2K)
    Nosotros Los Pobres stars Pedro Infante as a carpenter whose entire family must work together to clear his name after he is charged with a murder..
    DirectorIsmael RodríguezStarsPedro InfanteEvita Muñoz 'Chachita'Carmen Montejo
    https://www.clarovideo.com/mexico/vcard/Nosotros-los-pobres-/694812
  • The Amazing Catfish (2013)

    13. The Amazing Catfish

    20131h 29mNot Rated69Metascore
    7.0 (2.2K)
    Martha, a single mother of four children, lets Claudia move into her home. As Claudia bonds with the family, Martha's health slowly deteriorates.
    DirectorClaudia Sainte-LuceStarsLisa OwenXimena AyalaSonia Franco
    https://www.netflix.com/title/70295490
  • Enamorada (1946)

    14. Enamorada

    19461h 39mPG
    7.7 (1K)
    During the Mexican Revolution, a macho rebel general falls in love with the independent-minded daughter of an aristocrat in the town he is occupying.
    DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsMaría FélixPedro ArmendárizFernando Fernández
    https://www.primevideo.com/region/na/detail/0GI6RVLVVZP5Z3PG1PSJ7FGP89
  • Viridiana (1961)

    15. Viridiana

    19611h 31mNot Rated
    8.0 (27K)
    Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
    DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsSilvia PinalFrancisco RabalFernando Rey
    https://www.criterionchannel.com/viridiana
  • Cronos (1992)

    16. Cronos

    19921h 34mR70Metascore
    6.7 (35K)
    A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.
    DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsFederico LuppiRon PerlmanClaudio Brook
    https://www.criterionchannel.com/cronos
  • Días de otoño (1963)

    17. Días de otoño

    19631h 35m
    7.6 (390)
    A lonely provincial orphan embarks on a marriage that is destined to fail.
    DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsPina PellicerIgnacio López TarsoAdriana Roel
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_vh2rvO-Gk
  • Salma Hayek in Midaq Alley (1995)

    18. Midaq Alley

    19952h 20mUnrated
    7.3 (3.5K)
    The lives of men and women living on Callejón de los Milagros in Mexico City.
    DirectorJorge FonsStarsErnesto Gómez CruzMaría RojoSalma Hayek
    https://archive.org/details/midaq-alley-1995-1080p-bluray
  • Carmín Tropical (2014)

    19. Carmín Tropical

    20141h 20mTV-MA
    7.1 (341)
    Mabel, a muxe, returns home to her village in Oaxaca, Mexico to find her friend's killer.
    DirectorRigoberto PérezcanoStarsJosé PescinaLuis AlbertiEverardo Trejo
    https://www.primevideo.com/region/na/detail/0QX5G1OYNDWHY7LB8S4LUQ7AIE
  • The Passion of Berenice (1976)

    20. The Passion of Berenice

    19761h 47m
    7.0 (358)
    When a man appears in her life, a young woman of traditional manners who lives with her godmother suffers a deep and unusual transformation.
    DirectorJaime Humberto HermosilloStarsPedro Armendáriz Jr.Martha NavarroEmma Roldán
    https://www.nuestrocine.mx/detail/456
  • You're Missing the Point (1940)

    21. You're Missing the Point

    19401h 52mNot Rated
    7.9 (1.6K)
    The boyfriend (Cantinflas) of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.
    DirectorJuan Bustillo OroStarsCantinflasJoaquín PardavéSara García
    https://www.primevideo.com/region/na/detail/0FSJPS3K5Y0RFUSR43BK4J5LHI
  • Julio Alemán, Antonio Aguilar, Patricia Conde, and Columba Domínguez in My Son, the Hero (1961)

    22. My Son, the Hero

    19611h 35m
    7.8 (397)
    Reynaldo and Martín Del Hierro are witnesses of the murder of their father by Pascual Velazco, as they grow up they're poisoned by the desire of vengeance by their mother, but once they get it it'll change their lifes forever.
    DirectorIsmael RodríguezStarsAntonio AguilarJulio AlemánColumba Domínguez
    https://vix.com/es-es/detail/video-4371693
  • Ivana Baquero in Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

    23. Pan's Labyrinth

    20061h 58mR98Metascore
    8.2 (727K)
    In 1944 Spain, a girl is sent to live with her ruthless stepfather. During the night, she meets a fairy who takes her to an old faun. He tells her she's a princess, but must prove her royalty by surviving three gruesome tasks.
    DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsIvana BaqueroAriadna GilSergi López
    https://archive.org/details/el-laberinto-del-fauno_202303
  • The Castle of Purity (1973)

    24. The Castle of Purity

    19731h 50mNot Rated
    7.5 (2.6K)
    The story of a disciplined, sexually-driven man who keeps his family isolated in their home for years to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings while inventing rat poison with his wife.
    DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsClaudio BrookRita MacedoArturo Beristáin
    https://mubi.com/en/mx/films/castle-of-purity
  • Juan Pablo de Santiago, Hoze Meléndez, and Nicolasa Ortíz Monasterio in I Dream in Another Language (2017)

    25. I Dream in Another Language

    20171h 43mUnrated64Metascore
    7.4 (4.4K)
    When a language dies, a unique vision of the world is lost forever.
    DirectorErnesto ContrerasStarsFernando Álvarez RebeilJosé Manuel PoncelisEligio Meléndez
    https://www.primevideo.com/region/na/detail/0GQINWS9T6DX1IWLZCBRQX8TRI

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