The Best Mexican Comedies Movies to Watch
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La Cocina is pretty chaotic. Amidst the hectic rush hour at The Grill, writer-director Alonso Ruizpalacios brings a group of tired, impoverished workers that yearn for a better life into a cramped kitchen in America that gets flooded with cherry cola halfway through the movie in an outstanding long take. While some scenes still retain […]
In the Great Seduction, locals of a small town trick a bigshot doctor into thinking that despite the place’s insufficiencies, it’s still worth settling into. They pretend to love American football because it’s his favorite sport. They leave paper bills to make him think he’s lucky. They eavesdrop on his calls to learn what dish […]
Better known through its original Spanish name El Infierno, Hell is an underrated crime thriller that satirizes Mexico at the time of the Drug War. It follows an immigrant, Benjamin Garcia, who subsequently dives into a life of crime, though it’s not as lucrative as he expects. What ensues ends up becoming a darkly humorous, […]
When Sr. Lino started his warehouse job, he had to work for 11 years before being able to sit down during work hours. This is because there was one chair, and he had to wait for his more senior colleague to retire before he could have his turn. Now, many years later, he’s about to […]
Duck Season happens within the span of a normal Sunday afternoon. At first, when the electricity stops, it’s boring. The first two kids stare at each other in black and white, just looking for something to do. But it’s that exact boredom that gets the ensemble to meet each other, getting them to break out […]
When a playboy is handed a child from a past fling he moves from Mexico to America to try and find the mother. Once in America he finds himself deep into the role of a father with his transition being one of those sweet moments you never see coming. The whole movie has that tone, of […]