# The best Mexican films from 2000 to 2010

From Amores Perros and Y tu mamá también to Duck Season, Silent Light, Alamar and We Are What We Are: the films that made Mexican cinema of the 2000s one of the most interesting in the world, according to Icónica and Chilango.

- 54 votes · 12 items
- Sep 14, 2021 · palomitas_bilbao
- https://even.best/en/l/4603/the-best-mexican-films-from-2000-to-2010

## Top 12

1. **Parque Vía (2008)** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Enrique Rivero. A man alone looks after an empty house that is his whole world. Golden Leopard at Locarno.
2. **Y tu mamá también (2001)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Alfonso Cuarón. Two friends and an older woman on a road trip to a beach that may not exist.
3. **Silent Light (2007)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Carlos Reygadas. A love triangle in a Mennonite community in Chihuahua.
4. **Perfume de violetas (2001)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Maryse Sistach. The friendship of two teenage girls on the outskirts of Mexico City.
5. **De la calle (2001)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Gerardo Tort. A street kid in downtown Mexico City.
6. **Amores Perros (2000)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Alejandro González Iñárritu and Guillermo Arriaga. Three stories linked by a car crash in Mexico City.
7. **Lake Tahoe (2008)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Fernando Eimbcke. A boy crashes the family car and looks for someone to fix it.
8. **A Thousand Clouds of Peace (2003)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Julián Hernández. A 17-year-old wanders the city after his lover's farewell letter.
9. **Duck Season (2004)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Fernando Eimbcke. A Sunday without electricity in a Tlatelolco apartment.
10. **We Are What We Are (2010)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Jorge Michel Grau. A cannibal family in Mexico City, between horror and film noir.
11. **Alamar (2009)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Pedro González Rubio. A father and his young son on the Banco Chinchorro reef, between documentary and fiction.
12. **Perpetuum Mobile (2010)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Nicolás Pereda. A young removal man and a family life at a standstill.

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