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Top Mexican Films

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Aguirre: The Wrath of God1 1972 Werner Herzog 181
2 Los Olvidados 1950 Luis Buñuel 303
3 Viridiana2 1961 Luis Buñuel 304
4 Y tu mamá también 2001 Alfonso Cuarón 523
5 Like Water for Chocolate 1992 Alfonso Arau 611
6 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Luis Buñuel 655
7 Amores perros 2000 Alejandro González Iñárritu 776
8 El Topo 1970 Alejandro Jodorowsky 889
9 Pan's Labyrinth2 3 2006 Guillermo del Toro 894
10 El 1953 Luis Buñuel 1323
11 The Devil's Backbone2 2001 Guillermo del Toro 1443
12 Romancing the Stone3 1984 Robert Zemeckis 1478
13 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia3 1974 Sam Peckinpah 1509
14 The Motorcycle Diaries1 3 4 5 2004 Walter Salles 1536
15 El Mariachi3 1992 Robert Rodriguez 1630
16 The Holy Mountain3 1973 Alejandro Jodorowsky 2182
17 Babel3 4 2006 Alejandro González Iñárritu 2215
18 Frida3 6 2002 Julie Taymor 2304
19 ¡Que viva Mexico!3 1932 Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein 2350
20 Nazarín 1959 Luis Buñuel 2456

1 Joint production with (West) Germany and Peru.
2 Joint production with Spain.
3 Joint production with the United States.
4 Joint production with France.
5 Joint production with Argentina, Chile, Cuba, and the United Kingdom.
6 Joint production with Canada.

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