# The best films about the Mexican Revolution

Fernando de Fuentes's revolutionary trilogy, Emilio 'El Indio' Fernández, Julio Bracho and modern takes on Villa and Zapata: the cinema of the Revolution reviewed by Los Cínicos magazine.

- 51 votes · 11 items
- Jun 30, 2019 · Camila López
- https://even.best/en/l/4571/the-best-films-about-the-mexican-revolution

## Top 11

1. **Let's Go with Pancho Villa (1936)** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — Fernando de Fuentes. Six peasants join Villa and the war devours them one by one. Considered the genre's masterpiece.
2. **Godfather Mendoza (1934)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Fernando de Fuentes and Juan Bustillo Oro. A landowner who wines and dines federales and Zapatistas, depending on who turns up.
3. **The Soldiers of Pancho Villa (1959)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Ismael Rodríguez. Two soldaderas and a colonel, with María Félix, Dolores del Río and Emilio Fernández.
4. **Old Gringo (1989)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Luis Puenzo. Ambrose Bierce disappears into Villa's Mexico, with Gregory Peck and Jane Fonda.
5. **Enamorada (1946)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Emilio Fernández. A revolutionary general falls for the daughter of a rich man in Cholula, with María Félix and Pedro Armendáriz.
6. **Memories of a Mexican (1949)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Carmen Toscano. Documentary made from the footage Salvador Toscano shot during the Revolution.
7. **El prisionero trece (1933)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Fernando de Fuentes. A Huertista colonel and an execution that turns against him; the first of his trilogy.
8. **The Shadow of the Tyrant (1960)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Julio Bracho. The fight over the presidential succession, from Martín Luis Guzmán's novel; banned for decades.
9. **La generala (1970)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Juan Ibáñez. María Félix as a woman leading the revolutionary fight.
10. **Like Water for Chocolate (1992)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Alfonso Arau. Tita, the kitchen and a forbidden love during the Revolution, from Laura Esquivel's novel.
11. **Zapata: The Dream of a Hero (2004)** (-2 · ▲1 ▼3) — Alfonso Arau. Alejandro Fernández as Emiliano Zapata.

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