Best Mexican family movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch family films from Mexico, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Blue Miracle

    Blue Miracle 2021

    To save their cash-strapped orphanage, a guardian and his kids partner with a washed-up boat captain for a chance to win a lucrative fishing competition.

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  • Poster for Top Cat Begins

    Top Cat Begins 2015

    Top Cat and his new feline friend hatch a scheme to steal from the fearful Mr. Big.

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  • Poster for Salma's Big Wish

    Salma's Big Wish 2019

    In the Mexican town of Santa Clara, Salma, a 16 year-old orphan who never got to meet her biological parents, has spent most of her life searching for clues of their identities and whereabouts, that is until she discovers a special book that is filled with stories of the town's past and the history of it's people.

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  • Poster for Huevos: Little Rooster's Egg-Cellent Adventure

    Huevos: Little Rooster's Egg-Cellent Adventure 2015

    Toto has grown and now is a young cock. An evil rancher tricks the female owner of the ranch where they live and forces her to bet the property in a cockfight in the arena. Toto is the only option to defend their home, so he must train in just one week and win the championship of the arena.

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  • Poster for A Not So Merry Christmas

    A Not So Merry Christmas 2022

    A curse is placed on grinchy Chuy, who wakes up to find he's lived a full year, but is doomed to remember only Christmas Day. Every year. From now on.

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  • Poster for A Movie of Eggs

    A Movie of Eggs 2006

    A small egg named Toto decides that he wants to fulfill his purpose in life and become a chicken instead of dying in a frying pan; so he starts a quest to return to the farms along with his new friend, the noisy egg Willy and a crazy bacon stripe. The three friends will face lot of obstacles in their quest.

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  • Poster for Where the Tracks End

    Where the Tracks End 2023

    Georgina is a teacher determined to make a difference in the lives of the children she educates in the classroom of a wagon school in rural Mexico.

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  • Poster for Top Cat: The Movie

    Top Cat: The Movie 2011

    There's a new police chief in the neighbourhood who is disappointed with Officer Dibble's performance. The chief and his army of robots declare war on Top Cat and his gang of feisty felines.

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  • Poster for Xico's Journey

    Xico's Journey 2020

    The peace of a small town is endangered when a corporation wants to destroy the mountain that protects them. A girl named Copi and her best friend Xico, a Xoloitzcuintle dog, will go into the mountains to try to save the town.

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  • Poster for Impossible Things

    Impossible Things 2021

    After the death of her abusive husband, Matilde finds her new best friend in Miguel, her young, insecure, and disoriented neighbor.

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  • Poster for El Jeremías

    El Jeremías 2016

    In Sonora, Mexico. Jeremías, an eight year old, who finds out he is a gifted child initiates a journey of self discovery. When an opportunistic physiologist makes contact with Jeremías, a new world of experiences open up to him but at the expense of being away from the family he loves. Jeremías must choose between this exciting but lonely new world he finds himself in or returning home to his loving family.

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  • Poster for 3 Idiotas

    3 Idiotas 2017

    A group of friends embark on an adventure to find a classmate from university who disappeared without a trace on graduation day.

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  • Poster for Ana and Bruno

    Ana and Bruno 2017

    Ana, a nine year old girl, arrives with her mother to an isolated beach with the intention to rest and to know the sea. There, she discovers that they are under a terrible threat, therefore she is obligated to look for help with her father in order to save her mother.

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  • Poster for The Legend of La Llorona

    The Legend of La Llorona 2011

    Based on a famous Mexican legend, a group of kids must stop the ghost of a woman whose guilt over the drowning of her own children leads her to abduct youngsters who wander the woods at night.

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  • Poster for The Legend of the Nahuala

    The Legend of the Nahuala 2007

    Leo San Juan, an insecure child of nine years old, lives eternally frightened by horror stories that Nando tells his older brother. Within these stories it is 'The Legend of Nahuala', according to which, an old abandoned Casona is possessed by the spirit of an evil witch known as the Nahuala.

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  • Poster for To the Sea

    To the Sea 2010

    Before leaving for Rome with his mother, five year old Natan is taken by his father, Jorge, on an epic journey to the pristine Chinchorro reef off the coast of Mexico. As they fish, swim, and sail the turquoise waters of the open sea, Natan discovers the beauty of his Mayan heritage and learns to live in harmony with life above and below the surface, as the bond between father and son grows stronger before their inevitable farewell.

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  • Poster for El profe

    El profe 1971

    Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.

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  • Poster for The Wolves

    The Wolves 2020

    Max and Leo are 8 and 5 years old and have just immigrated to the US with their mother. Their days pass inside a tiny apartment, while they wait for their mother to come back, as they hold on to the hope of traveling to Disney.

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  • Poster for An Egg Rescue

    An Egg Rescue 2021

    Toto and his friends must rescue his egg children after they're taken away for a gourmet food event in Africa.

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  • Poster for Another Egg and Chicken Movie

    Another Egg and Chicken Movie 2009

    Toto, now a chicken, tries to live as such, while Willy and Bibi deal some problems between them. A sorcerer egg desert needs a chicken heart to cast a spell. He sends his armies of eggs vulture, ostrich and scorpion to kidnap Toto. His friends embark on a journey through the desert to rescue the chicken, where they live countless adventures

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  • Poster for The Legend of the Black Charro

    The Legend of the Black Charro 2018

    After releasing the Chupacabras, Leo San Juan decides that it is time to return together with his brother Nando to his grandmother's house. Halfway down the road, Charro Negro manages to confuse Leo and because of him, an innocent girl is dragged into the underworld. Leo is forced to repair the damage. His friends will come to try to help him and get out of there as soon as possible. But it is no coincidence that the Charro has chosen to involve Leo, his intentions go beyond getting a new soul.

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  • Poster for El Chanfle

    El Chanfle 1979

    Although he always wanted to become a professional soccer player, El Chanfle has settled for being the props boy and water boy for Mexican soccer's Club América, whose coach they both have trouble getting along with because of the Chanfle's heightened sense of honesty and cleanliness on the court, something the rigid coach does not share. When he is asked to cheat during a game he refuses and is fired from his job, but his friend, the team doctor will try to get him back. At the same time, his wife Tere announces to be pregnant, and trying to sell a gun in order to make money for their future, unintentionally scares a old man, Chato, with it, who now seeks revenge.

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  • Poster for Jungle Shuffle

    Jungle Shuffle 2014

    In this turbulent jungle adventure an outcast coati male has to team up with a quirky spider monkey to save a coati princess from the hands of a human poacher and his mysterious client.

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  • Poster for The Legend of the Chupacabras

    The Legend of the Chupacabras 2016

    Leo San Juan and his team of "ghostbusters" continue with their adventures, this time fighting against the mexican monster himself: "El Chupacabras".

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  • Poster for The Legend of the Guanajuato Mummies

    The Legend of the Guanajuato Mummies 2014

    Three friends confront a horde of mummies, who have inexplicably awakened, and try to rescue their pal, not realizing they have fallen into a trap.

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  • Poster for What a Father!

    What a Father! 2022

    Pedro is a single man in his forties who likes to party, has no children and lives at night. Everything changes when he meets Alin. She mentions to him that she is looking for her dad and that there is a high probability that it is him.

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  • Poster for Little Eggs: A Frozen Rescue

    Little Eggs: A Frozen Rescue 2022

    In the final Huevos adventure, Toto and his family will have to travel to the South Pole to fulfill their promise to return a polar bear and some Spanish penguins to their home. In order to do so, they will have to overcome some obstacles that will teach them how important teamwork is.

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  • Poster for Santa Claus

    Santa Claus 1959

    Pitch, the mean-spirited devil, is trying to ruin Christmas. Santa Claus teams up with Merlin the Magician and the children of the world in order to save the day!

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  • Poster for The Marquez-Castillo Siblings

    The Marquez-Castillo Siblings 2019

    A group of four siblings compete for the heritage of their father.

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  • Poster for The Kids Are Back

    The Kids Are Back 2017

    A retired couple will have to defend their home against an unpredicted menace: Their kids moving back.

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  • Poster for A Costume for Nicolas

    A Costume for Nicolas 2021

    After losing his mother, a boy with Down syndrome takes his trunk of magical costumes to live with his grandparents in this animated tale.

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  • Poster for El Chanfle 2

    El Chanfle 2 1982

    is the continuation of the Mexican film El Chanfle (1979) Chespirito, which aired in theaters in 1982. At that time the cast of the neighborhood (with some absences: the Carlos Villagran, who decided not to continue working with Roberto Gomez Bolaños by a personal decision, he left in 1979. Ramon Valdez next year decides to accompany him, also leaving to work with Chespirito. returned with him in 1981, but a health problem that was detected in the early 80's, was prevented from participating in this film), it left room for the story of a lowly stagehand football team that achieves his dream beside his wife Tere, of having a child. In this film, the situation is a little different.

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  • Poster for Travelers: Lost in Time

    Travelers: Lost in Time 2022

    Leo, a 10-year-old boy with an inexhaustible imagination who has just lost his father and best friend, uses a homemade time machine to travel back in time to find his father, whom the boy believes is lost in time.

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  • Poster for The Last One and then We Go

    The Last One and then We Go 2015

    A group of mariachis receives a letter to be part of the National Mariachi Contest in Mexico City. In order to be able to win they will need to travel together and solve their differences since their prime was 30 years ago.

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  • Poster for Never Too Young to Dream

    Never Too Young to Dream 2001

    A group of kids have a dream: to play a football championship and to win. Their dream is going to be fulfilled by Don Pepe, an old guy with lots of expectations for his kids.

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  • Las Amigas 2022

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  • Poster for La Leyenda de los Chaneques

    La Leyenda de los Chaneques 2023

    Five years after giving up his powers and separating from his friends, Leo San Juan has started a new life trying to focus on his family and their bakery, staying away from danger and adventures. However, Leo knows that his plans are rarely fulfilled and this time is no exception: while traveling with Nando to Veracruz, things start to get weird, and from the depths of the Tuxtlas jungle, an ancient curse has returned and only Leo can face it.

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  • Poster for The Miracle of Marcelino

    The Miracle of Marcelino 2010

    Mexico at the beginning of the 20th century: one night the monks of the San Francisco Abbey find a baby in front of their gate. They call the boy Marcelino and take care of the little one with devotion...

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  • Poster for The Idealists

    The Idealists 2020

    A group of adults who met while studying college gather together a few years later.

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  • Waves from the Sky 2019

    Pedro, a bird who cannot fly in sync with his flock, decides to branch out on his own.

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  • Poster for 108 Costuras

    108 Costuras 2019

    Two young kids dream about being professional baseball players.

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  • Poster for Nosotros, los De la Fe

    Nosotros, los De la Fe 2023

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  • Poster for The Mark of the Skunk

    The Mark of the Skunk 1950

    In 1840 California, The Texmelucan viscount bizco, offers a feast for his son Tin, who returned from Italy where he studied fencing. The boy turns out to be a coward who flees in terror after refusing to fight a duel with Captain Gaspar. In their flight, Tin rescues a witch was tied to a tree. Grateful, the witch gives him an ointment that will make him invincible for an hour. The coward swordsman will have three opportunities to use it and save his father from the injustices of the evil ruler Marcelo.

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  • Poster for Las Leyendas: El Origen

    Las Leyendas: El Origen 2021

    When a human baby crosses the Eternal Mirror, the portal between the living and the dead opens its path to the beings from the underworld.

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  • Poster for Poor Rich Family

    Poor Rich Family 2020

    After winning the lottery 15 years ago, Tino and his family start experiencing economical problems. Tino askes his neighbor for help, but his neighbor has his own issues too.

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  • Poster for Kung Fu Magoo

    Kung Fu Magoo 2010

    The world’s most notorious bad guys are invited to the island fortress of super-villain Tan-Gu to compete in an Olympic-style tournament of evil, called the Evilympics. Mr. Magoo and his 12 year-old nephew Justin fight giant robot spiders, ninjas on jet skis, and Tan-Gu’s mutant “Beasteens”, as representatives of the anti-evil task force.

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  • Poster for Tesoros

    Tesoros 2017

    Siblings Dylan and Andrea set off with their new friends on a marvelous journey of discovery in search of long lost pirate loot.

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  • Poster for To the Other Side

    To the Other Side 2005

    This drama features three stories about the bonds between children and absent parents. A Cuban boy who lives in poverty with his mother longs to visit his father in the United States, a Moroccan girl attempts to reunite with her father, and in Mexico, and a boy disobeys his father to visit a strange lagoon. These related vignettes showcase the powerful hold that parents have upon their children, which often remains strong despite their absence.

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  • Poster for The Girl with the Blue Backpack

    The Girl with the Blue Backpack 1979

    In a fishermen's town in Texas, the kids Amy and Raul are close friends. Andrew, uncle and guardian of Amy is alcoholic, but she loves him. The three of them have to face the autorities when they try to take Amy away.

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  • Poster for Viva High School Musical: Mexico

    Viva High School Musical: Mexico 2008

    Football captain Cristóbal discovers that his neighbor and classmate, Mariana, has changed a lot over the summer. Meanwhile, Luli is still as vain as ever and overshadows her poor brother, Fernando. As a new year begins at High School Mexico (HSM, initially interpreted), the school has announced a "Battle of the Bands" contest hosted by Jesse & Joy. Working against the clock and with limited resources, Cristobal, Mariana, and a few of their peers unite as a band. In a desperate effort, Luli dares the impossible task of separating Cristobal from his friends. But only one band will be the winner; the one who understands that teamwork, personal development, and hard work will not only make them better artists but also better people.

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  • Poster for The Dream of Lu

    The Dream of Lu 2012

    Lucia must find new meaning in her life in order to move forward after a suicide attempt.Dealing with her grief over the death of her son,she establishes new ties and notices small miracles.An encounter and unexpected journey open up the space for her to understand that she can continue to live and to discover that eternity resides in a single instant.

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  • Poster for Los 3 reyes magos

    Los 3 reyes magos 1976

    The biblical story about the magical wizards that come to visit little baby Jesus when he was born.

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  • Poster for Insignificant Things

    Insignificant Things 2008

    Esmeralda is a teenager with an unusual obsession: she collects lost, forgotten or discarded objects from people she doesn't know and keeps them in a box beneath her bed. This is the tale of three objects in the box and the people behind them, all in some way incapable of relating to the person they love most. It is also a tale of the box itself, and of how Esmeralda learns to open it, to feel and to hoard the most valuable thing of all: human relations.

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  • Poster for Music School

    Music School 1955

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  • Poster for Fear Doesn't Ride a Donkey

    Fear Doesn't Ride a Donkey 1976

    This funny Mexican film tell the tale of a family who will do anything to get rid of the rich old lady who sits at the head of the clan. All the hilarious members want a piece of the very lucrative inheritance money. What they don't know, however, is that grandma has left all of the money to her trusty dog.

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  • Poster for Little Red Riding Hood

    Little Red Riding Hood 1959

    The classic story of the Red Riding Hood spiced up by a couple of funny characters like the dog Duke, companion to the girl in her adventures, and the stinky Skunk, henchman to the Wolf.

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  • Poster for The Little Colonel

    The Little Colonel 1960

    Joselito is the son of Colonel José de Alvear, Earl of Almond. When his heroic father dies in the colonies, the victim of a cholera epidemic, the child is held by her guardian and executor, his uncle Martin, who wants to take his fortune.

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  • Poster for The Boy and the Star

    The Boy and the Star 1976

    Wanted to fly to the sky ...And one day he got it When a child dares to steal the keys to the orphanage, guarded by a soldier, is exposed to too many dangers. This is the story of that child, freeing his birds, he demanded to life and men, their own freedom. '

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  • Poster for Duro pero seguro

    Duro pero seguro 1978

    Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando performing and the director expels her out.

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  • Poster for A Twelve Year Old Pirate

    A Twelve Year Old Pirate 1972

    In the sixteenth Captain Morgan pirate ship is sunk by the Spanish fleet. He and four companions make it to an island, but the beaches are occupied by the Spanish. The child Erick, son of John Goldark, King of the Pirates, who died trying to save his nephews Lady Harold and the Spanish prisoners, helping them into the jungle. Grateful Morgan and his friends save the captives. When it seems that children are lost flying the Spanish magazine. Then fight with cannibals and are again caught by the Spanish, but are saved by another pirate ship.

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  • Poster for Aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho

    Aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho 1943

    Las aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho was the second color feature film and the first fantasy film for children made in Mexico.

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  • Poster for Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs. the Monsters

    Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs. the Monsters 1962

    The film follows adventures of Little Red Riding Hood (Maria Gracia) and Tom Thumb (Cesaro Quezadas) and their friends, fighting against the wicked Witch Queen (Ofelia Guilmáin) and her band of monsters. The film starts at the meeting of the evil monsters in the castle in the Haunted Forest, heart of the Devil's dominion, during which the Vampire (Quintín Bulnes) accuses the Wolf (Manuel Valdés) and the Ogre (José Elías Moreno) of betraying the Witch Queen (La Reina Bruja, renamed Queen of Badness in the English dub), who orders them to ber executed. Their friend Stinky the Skunk (Santanón) however escapes and informs Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb, who promise to help. Meanwhile, the Queen and her sister the Old Witch cast a terrible curse, turning villagers into monkeys and mice for trying to defy her magic. The rest of the story details the heroes' quest to conquer evil.

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  • Poster for Oasis

    Oasis 2020

    2020, in global confinement in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, in CDMX women decide to give birth in their own home. The film is an intimate witness of life, which, despite everything, prevails.

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  • Poster for El precio de educarlos

    El precio de educarlos 2024

    When the Rebolledo accountants' children finally leave their home, their lonely parents, feeling abandoned, come up with the crazy plan to win the lottery in order to regain the interest of Pali and Marcelo. Posing as millionaires works wonders, so much so that their children give up their personal ventures in order to be close to them. But things get out of control when they demand the same luxuries.

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  • Poster for The Vivanco Ladies

    The Vivanco Ladies 1959

    Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother's daughter.

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  • Poster for Milagro

    Milagro 2011

    Milagro is a young woman who endures the horror constantly brought on by her step-sister Hodesa. Hodesa, in her world of obscurity, attempts to impede every success and moment of happiness that comes Milagro's way. One day a powerful book lands on Milagro's hands unraveling an intense fight between good and evil.

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