Mexican revolution movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant mexican revolution movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, spaghetti western, serious, exciting, euro western and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with mexican revolution, revolution, battles, cowboy, machine gun, revolutionary, rivalry, shootout, rebellion and state affairs plots mostly in Western, Drama and Action genres shot in Italy, Mexico, Spain and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as mexican revolution: A Bullet for the General (1967), Duck, You Sucker (1971), 100 Rifles (1969), Tepepa (1969), The Professionals (1966), Train for Durango (1968), Cannon for Cordoba (1970), Companeros (1970), Old Gringo (1989), Villa Rides (1968).

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And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa (Antonio Banderas) invites studios to shoot his actual battles against Porfírio Diaz army to raise funds for financing guns and ammunition. The Mutual Film Corporation, through producer D.W. Griffith ...
Style: captivating, serious, surreal, realistic, factual ...
Plot: mexican revolution, violence, obsessive quest, campaign, rebelliousness, state affairs, battle zone, battles, battlefield, assassination, murder, medieval ...
Place: mexico
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A Bullet for the General (1967)
Genre: Action, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware he is an assassin working for the Mexican ...
Style: spaghetti western, grindhouse, euro western, epic, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican revolution, cowboy, wild west, medieval, civil war, myth, reform, spy, protest, exploitation, underground, man on a mission ...
Time: year 1967, 1910s, 20th century
Place: mexico, latin america, usa, sonora
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Duck, You Sucker (1971)
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 157 min.
Story: At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national ...
Style: atmospheric, spaghetti western, intense, epic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican revolution, friendship, rape, cowboy, culture clash, redemption, chase, rebellion, cynicism, haunted by the past, two man army, motorcycle ...
Time: 1910s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: mexico, ireland, northern ireland, latin america, mexico city
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For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, War, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, epic, christian film ...
Plot: catholic, religious persecution, faith, rebellion, civil war, battles, military, chicano, saint, fighting the system, rebelliousness, wartime life ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: mexico, latin america
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 6.0
 4K
100 Rifles (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When half-breed Indian Yaqui Joe robs an Arizona bank, he is pursued by dogged lawman Lyedecker. Fleeing to Mexico, Joe is imprisoned by General Verdugo, who is waging a war against the Yaqui Indians. When Lyedecker attempts to intervene, he is ...
Style: spaghetti western, political, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican revolution, train, ambush, native american, old west, medieval, african american, cowboy, woman with a gun, interracial, redsploitation, apache ...
Time: 1910s, year 1969, 60s, year 1912
Place: mexico, arizona, latin america, usa, sonora ...
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 6.6
 1K
Tepepa (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro.
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, action adventure, grindhouse, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican revolution, revolution, disorder, on the run, state affairs, chases and races, society, vengeance, escapades, rebelliousness, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: year 1969, 1910s, 20th century
Place: latin america, mexico
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The Professionals (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The Professionals is a 1966 American Western film directed by Richard Brooks. A kidnap-rescue adventure set in about 1917, it features a small group of experts heading into Mexico to free the Mexican-born wife of a wealthy Texan from several hundred ...
Style: retro, epic, spaghetti western, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: desert, mexican revolution, mercenary, kidnapping, gunfight, wild west, old west, female nudity, train, cowboy, chase, mission ...
Time: year 1966, 1910s, 20th century
Place: mexico, latin america
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Train for Durango (1968)
Genre: Western, Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 2 buddy adventurers witness a train-robbery and are then hunting the robbed gold and they also robbed Helen.
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, surprise ending
Plot: mexican revolution, shooting, train robbery, gold, revolutionary, seduction, friendship, mexican army, making love, cannon, shootout, bandit ...
Time: year 1900
Place: mexico
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Cannon for Cordoba (1970)
Genre: Action, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In 1916, a Mexican rebel named Cordoba steals six cannons from the forces of General Pershing who's been sent to bring order to the Texas-Mexico border. Pershing assigns a soldier named Rod Douglas to retrieve the cannons.
Style: spaghetti western, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: mexican revolution, soldier, cowboy, train robbery, battles, cannon, border, rebel army, u.s. mexico border, suicide mission, mexican border, warlord ...
Time: 1910s
Place: usa, texas, latin america, sonora, mexico
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 7.2
 5K
Companeros (1970)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, action adventure, epic, funny ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican revolution, cowboy, female nudity, shootout, marriage, coin, hawk, buddy, pacifist, epic battle, civil war, combat ...
Time: year 1970, 19th century, 1900s, 1910s
Place: mexico, texas, latin america, usa
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 5.8
 2K
Old Gringo (1989)
Genre: Adventure, History, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen. Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries. An aging American, Ambrose "Old Gringo" Bierce also in Mexico, befriends Gen. Arroyo and meets Harriet. Bierce is a ...
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, surprise ending, eighties ...
Plot: mexican revolution, writers, politics, older woman younger man relationship, women, older woman younger man, political unrest, love triangle, showdown, spinster, aging, fall in love ...
Time: year 1989, 1910s, 1900s
Place: latin america, mexico, washington d.c., sonora, central america
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 6.3
 2K
Villa Rides (1968)
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner & pilot Lee Arnold joins bandit-turned-patriot Pancho Villa & his band of dedicated men in a march across Mexico battling the Colorados & stealing ...
Style: spaghetti western, political, retro, euro western, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican revolution, medieval, mexican history, fictional history, cowboy, power struggle, maverick, resistance, gunrunner, revolution, biopic, historical figure ...
Time: 19th century
Place: mexico, latin america, texas, sonora
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 7.9
 90K
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Aging outlaw Pike Bishop (William Holden) prepares to retire after one final robbery. Joined by his gang, which includes Dutch Engstrom (Ernest Borgnine) and brothers Lyle (Warren Oates) and Tector Gorch (Ben Johnson), Bishop discovers the heist is ...
Style: controversial, cult classic, intense, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican revolution, gunfight, robbery, gang, on the run, violent, heist, friendship, cowboy, wild west, bounty hunter, civil war ...
Time: year 1969, 1910s, 19th century, 20th century
Place: texas, america, persia, mexico, arizona ...
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The Mercenary (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S. rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic peasant tells how he and a dedicated female radical fought for the soul of the guerrilla general Paco, as Mexicans threw off ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, epic, funny, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican revolution, cowboy, mercenary, medieval, villain, woman with a gun, native american, circus, combat, exploitation, wild west, mexican history ...
Time: 1910s
Place: mexico, latin america
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 5.4
 42
Cuartelazo (1977)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Mexico
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario ...
Plot: mexican revolution, dictator, rebellion, bandit, biopic, diplomacy, anarchism, state terrorism, political repression, assassination, senate, rebel ...
Time: 1900s
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Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, ...
Style: touching, sentimental, compassionate, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: cooking, magic realism, food, wedding, chocolate, cooking and food, mexican revolution, sisters, forbidden love, marriage, family drama, nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 19th century, 1930s, 1910s, year 1934 ...
Place: mexico, latin america, texas, usa, san antonio texas
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 5.8
 222
Killer Kid (1967)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The ruthless and cruel Captain Ramirez hunts down and kills revolutionaries in his search for The Saint, the righteous leader of the Mexican insurrection against the Federales.
Style: spaghetti western, euro western
Plot: mexican revolution, arms deal, gold, revolution, tyranny, jail, massacre, brutality, torture, weapons, night, fight ...
Place: mexico
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Run, Man, Run (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The legendary Tomas Milian stars as Cuchillo, a knife-throwing thief on the run from murderous bandits, sadistic American agents, his hot-blooded fiancée and a sheriff turned bounty hunter, all of whom are gunning for a hidden fortune in gold that ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, epic, action adventure, funny ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican revolution, cowboy, native american, love story, maverick, duel, treasure hunt, violent content, revolution, rivalry, escapades, chase ...
Time: 19th century, 1910s
Place: mexico, austin texas, texas, usa, latin america
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Don't Turn the Other Cheek (1971)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, War, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A spaghetti western in which three adventurers team up during the Mexican Revolution. Mary O'Donnell, a radical Irish journalist, wants to foment a peasant revolt in Mexico. She enlists the help of a seedy bandit, Lozoya, by saving him from a ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, suspenseful, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: mexican revolution, cowboy, hanging, heroes, political unrest, adventurer, escapades, rivalry, rebellion, state affairs, revolution, war violence ...
Time: year 1971
Place: yuma arizona, arizona, mexico
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A Town Called Hell (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of Mexican revolutionaries murders a town priest and a number of his christian followers. Ten years later, a widow arrives in town intent to take revenge from her husband's killers.
Style: spaghetti western, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican revolution, hanging, cowboy, occult, 666, bandit, nudity, violent content, old west, small town, corrupt officer, confined ...
Time: year 1971, 1910s, 19th century, 20th century
Place: mexico, latin america
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Apasionado Pancho Villa (2014)
Genre: Biography
Country: Mexico
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The assassination of Pancho Villa, on the outskirts of Parral, Chihuahua, plunged the city into mourning, and a wake for the revolutionary hero was held by his closest collaborators. Conspicuous among the mourners were the four women with whom Villa ...
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, tense
Plot: mexican revolution, love of one's life, murder mystery, male female relationship, problem, extramarital affair, sexual tension, murderer, murder investigation, murder, biopic
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 4.6
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Pancho Villa (1972)
Genre: Action, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa is double-crossed in an arms deal planned by his comrade Scotty. Villa and Scotty plot a raid on a U.S. cavalry fort in retaliation.
Style: spaghetti western, independent film, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: mexican revolution, cowboy, arms deal, adventurer, traveler, mexican history, heroes, state affairs, rebelliousness, lone wolves, folk hero, rivalry ...
Time: year 1972, 1910s, year 1916
Place: latin america, mexico, sonora
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The Five Man Army (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Set during the Mexican Revolution, a man known only as "The Dutchman" has a plan, and brings in four of his old acquaintences, including an old army buddy and a silent Japanese swordsman, to help him out by promising a $1000 reward if it ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting
Plot: mexican revolution, samurai, cowboy, wild west, man on a mission, shootout, battles, martial arts, fort, gunfight, kung fu, prison break ...
Time: 1910s
Place: mexico
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The Bounty Hunters (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama, War, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Set in Mexico under the rule of Emperor Maximilian I, Sabata is hired by the guerrilla leader Señor Ocaño to steal a wagonload of gold from the Austrian army. However, when Sabata and his partners Escudo and Ballantine obtain the wagon, they find ...
Style: spaghetti western, spectacular, euro western, cult classic, cynical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, mexican revolution, bounty hunter, heroes, soldier, blood, fight, small village, revolutionary, western hero, violence, tough guy ...
Time: 19th century, 70s, 1860s
Place: latin america, austria, mexico
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 6.8
 47
Cananea (1978)
Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are exploited for their labour.
Plot: mexican revolution, strike, union, economist, labor, conflict, anarchism, conquistador, town, class struggle, police officer, squad ...
Place: latin america, sonora, arizona, mexico
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What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Western, Adventure
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In the beginning of the 20th. century Italian actor Guido Guidi, more enthusiastic than talented, and his ensemble tour Texas. The mysterious and obviously rich Peppino Garibaldi gives them an offer, they can’t deny: For a large amount of dough ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, political, parody
Plot: mexican revolution, politics, disguise, airplane, priest, baby, firing squad, motorcycle, execution, actor, convent
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Django Strikes Again (1987)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Colombia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Former gunfighter Django has become a monk and abandoned his violent former ways. His daughter is kidnapped by rogue Hungarian soldiers using slave labor to run a silver mine. Django casts off his habit and digs up his machine gun to practice a ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, cult classic, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, monastery, liberation theology, modern west, modern western, woman with a gun, heroes, one man army, monk, gunfighter, rebel army, mexican revolution ...
Time: 19th century
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 6.5
 188
The Comet (1999)
Genre: Musical, Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive" material against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, Valentina escapes taking a sack of gold coins with her in order to hand it over to rebel Francisco I. Madero, who is ...
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, realistic
Audience: girls' night
Plot: mexican revolution, revolution, love and romance, idealism, filmmaking, teenage love, fall in love, life is a bitch, society, circus, hopes, chases and races ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century
Place: mexico, usa, texas, latin america
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Tear This Heart Out (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful ...
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, captivating, romantic ...
Plot: couples, infidelity, fall in love, crumbling marriage, family problems, rise to the top, love and romance, social climbing, state affairs, revolution, ambition, politics ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: latin america, mexico
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The Attempt Dossier (2010)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Mexico
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz.
Plot: mexican revolution, ancient, biopic, political intrigue, male female relationship, drunkenness, newspaper, train, conspiracy, picnic, restaurant, carriage ...
Time: 19th century, ancient times, 1890s
Place: mexico, latin america, mexico city
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