The best films about the Mexican Revolution
The top 3 according to 51 votes from people: Let's Go with Pancho Villa (1936) · Godfather Mendoza (1934) · The Soldiers of Pancho Villa (1959). (Updated Jun 30, 2019.)
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.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 11
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1
Let's Go with Pancho Villa (1936)
Fernando de Fuentes. Six peasants join Villa and the war devours them one by one. Considered the genre's masterpiece.
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2
Godfather Mendoza (1934)
Fernando de Fuentes and Juan Bustillo Oro. A landowner who wines and dines federales and Zapatistas, depending on who turns up.
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3
The Soldiers of Pancho Villa (1959)
Ismael Rodríguez. Two soldaderas and a colonel, with María Félix, Dolores del Río and Emilio Fernández.
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4
Old Gringo (1989)
Luis Puenzo. Ambrose Bierce disappears into Villa's Mexico, with Gregory Peck and Jane Fonda.
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5
Enamorada (1946)
Emilio Fernández. A revolutionary general falls for the daughter of a rich man in Cholula, with María Félix and Pedro Armendáriz.
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6
Memories of a Mexican (1949)
Carmen Toscano. Documentary made from the footage Salvador Toscano shot during the Revolution.
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7
El prisionero trece (1933)
Fernando de Fuentes. A Huertista colonel and an execution that turns against him; the first of his trilogy.
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8
The Shadow of the Tyrant (1960)
Julio Bracho. The fight over the presidential succession, from Martín Luis Guzmán's novel; banned for decades.
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9
La generala (1970)
Juan Ibáñez. María Félix as a woman leading the revolutionary fight.
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10
Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
Alfonso Arau. Tita, the kitchen and a forbidden love during the Revolution, from Laura Esquivel's novel.
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11
Zapata: The Dream of a Hero (2004)
Alfonso Arau. Alejandro Fernández as Emiliano Zapata.
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