Best Mexican mystery movies

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

  • Poster for Huesera: The Bone Woman

    Huesera: The Bone Woman 2023

    Valeria's joy at becoming a first-time mother is quickly taken away when she's cursed by a sinister entity. As danger closes in, she's forced deeper into a chilling world of dark magic that threatens to consume her.

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  • Poster for Veronica

    Veronica 2017

    A female Psychologist who has stopped practicing medicine, decides to take the case of Veronica de la Serna, a young woman whose previous therapist has mysteriously disappeared.

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  • Poster for Death's Roulette

    Death's Roulette 2023

    Seven strangers wake up in a mansion in the middle of nowhere to discover they are part of a twisted game. They will have 60 minutes to choose one person to die; otherwise, all of them will be murdered. As the clock ticks down, the most lurid secrets will come to light, and they’ll discover they are all connected by a dark past.

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  • Poster for A Deadly Invitation

    A Deadly Invitation 2023

    Eccentric millionaire Olivia sends her half sister Agatha, and a group of old acquaintances, a mysterious invitation for a weekend on her yacht, where they will discover the true motive behind this invitation: the celebration of… a murder?

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  • Poster for Herod's Law

    Herod's Law 1999

    In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.

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  • Poster for Time Share

    Time Share 2018

    While staying at a tropical resort, a man becomes convinced the American timeshare company running it has an evil plan to take away his loved ones.

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  • Poster for KM 31: Kilometer 31

    KM 31: Kilometer 31 2006

    While driving through the kilometer 31 of a lonely road, Agata Hameran hits a boy. She leaves her car to help the victim and another car runs over her and she falls in a deep coma. Her twin sister Catalina telepathically feels the pain of Agata and hears her whispering for help. Together with her boyfriend Nuno and Agata's mate Omar, they return to the km 31 of the road, and find out that the place is surrounded by supernatural accidents caused by the ghost of a mother that lost her boy many years ago. Further, Catalina discloses that the spirit of Agata is trapped between the worlds of the living and the dead.

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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 Even the Wind Is Afraid

    Even the Wind Is Afraid 1968

    A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.

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  • Poster for The Containment

    The Containment 2025

    A girl is possessed by a dark and mysterious entity. She will fight with all the elements at her disposal to get rid of it. Neither her mother, nor traditional medicine, nor a supposed expert in exorcisms, will be able to make the demon disappear, until a nun gets involved in the case and sows a doubt more terrible than the possession itself.

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  • Poster for While the Wolf's Away

    While the Wolf's Away 2017

    A young teen and his misfit group of friends try to escape from a strict boarding school that holds dangerous secrets.

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  • Poster for Satanic Pandemonium

    Satanic Pandemonium 1975

    Sister Maria is known in the convent for her good works and charity, but, in the secret depths of her sexual fantasies, she is tormented by visions of another world - a world where her forbidden passions are allowed to run free. In this world Satan is her master. As her acts of violence and blasphemy mount, Maria realizes that she has been chosen by the Devil to destroy the convent and lead her sister nuns into hell!

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  • Poster for Blacker Than the Night

    Blacker Than the Night 1975

    When four women move into an old house left by one woman's aunt, strange things begin to happen. Bizarre voices, visions of ghosts, and mysterious noises lead them to discover the darkest powers of evil and a horror and agony beyond terror.

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  • Poster for Grave Robbers

    Grave Robbers 1989

    A group of teenage, treasure seeking, grave robbers accidentally uncover the tomb of a satanic sect leader from the early Spanish colonial age, reawakening the diabolical killer, who promptly sets out to complete his unholy mission of spawning the son of Satan.

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  • Poster for Lost Girl

    Lost Girl 2019

    Shattered by the unexpected news of their irreversible break-up, an aspiring orchestra conductor is puzzled by his girlfriend's mysterious and seemingly inexplicable case of disappearance.

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  • Poster for 1974: The Possession of Altair

    1974: The Possession of Altair 2018

    A newlywed couple disappeared in 1974, their 8mm tapes reveal one of the most horrifying events in Mexican history.

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  • Poster for Backyard

    Backyard 2009

    Officer Blanca Bravo arrives in Juarez, Mexico — a grim nexus of corporate colonialism and sexual tourism — to investigate a rash of killings targeting female migrant workers. But with no help from the locals, bringing the responsible parties to justice becomes a frustrating exercise. As Bravo rails against indifference and local corruption, she finds herself on a collision course with Mickey Santos, a Mexican mogul with a taste for young prostitutes.

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  • Poster for Noctem

    Noctem 2017

    Adrian and Esteban have been missing for a year. The police are at a standstill, despite having found their personal belongings in Cozumel, an island 12 miles away from the Riviera Maya. Alex friend of both, manages to get their cell phones, with which he will start his own parallel research. And he will discover that the truth is much more terrifying than you could imagine.

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  • Poster for El Supersabio

    El Supersabio 1948

    Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the composition

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  • Poster for Under the Salt

    Under the Salt 2008

    A series of murders leads Commander Trujillo to Santa Rosa de la Sal a town close to a salt mine, where he meets Victor Zepeda - a lonely teenager who works in his father's funeral home and spends his free time making crude animated horror films - who's strange behavior seems to point at him as the culprit of the crimes.

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  • Poster for Two Monks

    Two Monks 1934

    In a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and suddenly attempts to bludgeon him to death with a heavy crucifix. Both men then relate their own versions of a story of romantic rivalry between them.

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  • Poster for Tragic Jungle

    Tragic Jungle 2020

    Deep in the jungle, a group of Mexican gum workers crosses their path with Agnes, a mysterious Belizean woman. Her presence enlivens the fantasies and desires of those men, without knowing that they have woken up an ancient Mayan legend.

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  • Poster for Nicolás de Jesús' Now You See Me...

    Nicolás de Jesús' Now You See Me... 2025

    Struggling fair owner Kesselring (Nicolás de Jesús) is given a unique opportunity to restore the fair to its former glory when his friend Dr. Goodkat (Fredy Roque) introduces him to Marcus Kelevra (Alexis Adrián), a man whose mysterious act will draw people back to the fair, at a deadly cost, and even sparking interest among his fellow fairgoers.

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  • Poster for Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary

    Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary 1975

    Mexican horror film about an American painter named Mary who is living in Mexico where she sells her works and also kills people for their blood. It turns out Mary is a vampire but not the traditional one with fangs. Since she has no fangs she must stab or slash the throats of her victims but soon she has a new man in her life as well as a mysterious man in black who appears to be doing the same type of murders.

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  • Poster for Carmín tropical

    Carmín tropical 2014

    Mabel travels to her hometown to find the murderer of her friend Daniela. A journey through nostalgia, love and betrayal in a place where transgenderism once took on an unusual dimension.

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  • Poster for Aunt Alejandra

    Aunt Alejandra 1979

    The arrival of Aunt Alejandra triggers a series of nightmarish events that will put the life of a family at mysterious risk.

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  • Poster for The Scapular

    The Scapular 1968

    A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.

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  • Poster for Km 31-2

    Km 31-2 2016

    A woman is searching for her son who got lost under mysterious circumstances.

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  • Poster for Twilight

    Twilight 1945

    Doctor Alejandro Mangino falls in love with Lucía just before he goes on a round-the-world trip. Pining for her all the while, he returns to find that she’s married his best friend.

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  • Poster for Desecration

    Desecration 1934

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  • Poster for The Fool Killer

    The Fool Killer 1965

    After the Civil War, a southern boy, aged 12, runs away from his foster home, wanders the countryside, and meets various odd characters along the way, including Milo, a mysterious drifter who may or may not be the vengeful "Fool Killer" of folklore.

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  • Poster for Ephemeral

    Ephemeral 2022

    Miguel's journey is about to begin and during one night he has endless acts to complete.

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  • Poster for Meteorite

    Meteorite 2019

    Bird men suffer mysterious falls in the search for where the sun rises. An altered reality through rites that converge in one objective: die to generate life.

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  • Poster for A Rat in the Darkness

    A Rat in the Darkness 1979

    Two sisters buy an old dark house, soon they discover it's haunted.

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  • Poster for The Secret

    The Secret 2010

    The life of a woman changes completely after the murder of her mother and when she comes to live with her aunt, she realizes that she keeps a secret that has remained hidden and protected for centuries.

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  • Poster for Call Me Mike

    Call Me Mike 1979

    After being unjustly accused of corruption and seriously injured in prison, Miguel's personality will merge with the characters he reads in his police novels.

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  • Poster for The Crying Woman

    The Crying Woman 1933

    Llorona is a figure unique to Mexican folklore -- the wailing spirit of a woman who lost or killed her child and now returns to seek revenge and haunt the living. With its framing story and flashback structure, this film sets forth a couple of variations of the story.

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  • Poster for Pickman's Model

    Pickman's Model 2014

    July, 1925. Thurber Phillips, an art collector, is invited by his favorite painter, the elusive and mysterious Richard Upton Pickman, to visit his home, a sinister place where his friend's macabre paintings seem to threaten him from the walls in shadows.

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  • Poster for The Crying Woman

    The Crying Woman 1960

    A woman takes revenge in the family of her lover.

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  • Now You See Me... - Part 2 2019

    Kelevra continues being the main attraction in Kesselring's fair, and making stronger their partnership, as well, the relation between him and Lindsey. Meanwhile, Bordem and Gretchen start planing something to finish the glory of Kelevra.

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  • Poster for Drizzle

    Drizzle 1978

    Returning from a business trip, a man meets some peasants who arouse fears in him.

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  • Poster for Whispers

    Whispers 2013

    What starts out as a fantasy, could just be reality.

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  • Poster for The Noiseless Dead

    The Noiseless Dead 1946

    Tin-tan gets involved in what seem to be a murder at the local house of wax.

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  • Poster for The Birthday of the Dog

    The Birthday of the Dog 1975

    Two men who kill their wives so they can be together. A tailor goes from having his dog as his best friend to a young man, in a friendship that becomes so very close that the younger man murders his wife. He is helped by the other man. The husband wants to help him, but his wife wants to turn him in to the police. So he also kills his wife.

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  • Poster for El Garabato

    El Garabato 2008

    The story of a naive young man, provincial and not very experienced, to whom the circumstances of destiny, when crossing with the beautiful Frida, lead him to mature with a single blow. Rodolfo helps Frida in a car accident while she orders him to deliver an envelope. There begins the desperate flight of this innocent man fighting for his life, persecuted by thugs -who want to recover the contents of the envelope- and by the police -who seeks him for being a suspect in the death of an important diplomat.

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  • Poster for Hidden Moon

    Hidden Moon 2012

    After a mysterious, beautiful Latin woman named Miranda makes a dramatic appearance at the funeral of a man, shocking his affluent Southern California family, Victor, the man's son, heads to Mexico to find out the truth about the nature of her relationship with his dead father. He finds Miranda in the city of Guanajuato living with another man, Tobias. When Victor confronts Miranda, she denies meeting his father and says they will never hear from her again. If Miranda is telling the truth, what exactly was she doing at Victor's father's funeral? Who is the man that she is living with now? Their confrontation is the beginning of a chain of events where the protagonists will have to solve the dilemma that happens when true love comes twice at the same time.

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  • Poster for Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache

    Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache 2021

    When an ambitious, skeptical young entrepreneur faces strange portents of impending death, he is thrust into a mystical world of ancient wisdom and traditional beliefs that points to a special woman as his only hope for life.

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  • Poster for La mujer sin cabeza

    La mujer sin cabeza 1944

    A magician suspected of having killed a colleague is arrested by the police, but his assistant helps him escape.

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  • Poster for Scared to Death

    Scared to Death 1958

    A young woman hires Viruta y Capulina to find a notorious jewel thief, known as Rostov.

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  • Poster for Mexico City

    Mexico City 2000

    When her brother disappears during a brief travel layover in Mexico, Mitch begins a desperate search that will eventually lead the young divorcee into the capital city's most notorious neighborhood. But even with the aid of the American Ambassador, her plight is only met with indifference and inaction from the authorities. As the story unfolds, Mitch is forced to look for help in the least likely places as she races against time in a dangerous quest to find answers and locate her brother.

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  • Poster for Santo vs. Blue Demon in Atlantis

    Santo vs. Blue Demon in Atlantis 1970

    A Nazi scientist using the lost city of Atlantis as his home base threatens to destroy civilization with a nuclear bomb. The Nazi scientist wants the third Reich to rule again and if his demands are not meet he will follow through on his threat of nuclear annihilation. With very little time to spare Santo is enlisted to find the nuclear bomb, disarm it and end the Nazi scientist’s diabolical plan

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  • Poster for Black Doll

    Black Doll 2011

    Prisoners, two sisters share their life in a strange place. The mundane routine, along curiosity, will bring Prita to break the boundaries of the secure place.

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  • Poster for The Blue Iguana

    The Blue Iguana 1988

    To stay out of the slammer, down-on-his-luck bounty hunter Vince Holloway reluctantly agrees to do the bidding of two crooked IRS agents. Tasked with recouping $20 million of laundered drug money, Holloway heads south of the border to the Blue Iguana, a bar crawling with thugs, killers, smugglers, evil women, and crazy action.

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  • Poster for The Sign of Death

    The Sign of Death 1939

    Two journalists, Carlos and Lola, investigate the murder of a young woman whose body appeared with her heart torn out, in what seems to be a human sacrifice. The investigation leads the reporters to a museum, whose director is the famous Doctor Gallardo.

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  • Poster for Black Circle

    Black Circle 2019

    The lives of two sisters change dramatically, since they were hypnotized by a mystical vinyl record from the 1970s.

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  • Poster for Mystery in the Bermuda Triangle

    Mystery in the Bermuda Triangle 1979

    Beautiful Silvia and Sandra disappear mysteriously at the Bermuda Triangle. Santo, Blue Demon and Mil Mascaras, a team of super-heroes, go into action to try to find them. Soon they find out that evil Scientist Dr. Gro has developed a device to make people and objects to disappear blaming the famous vanishings of ships, airplanes and human beings on Mother Nature. Cast: Santo el Enmascarado de Plata, Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, Silvia Manrquez and, Sandra Duarte

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  • Poster for Conversaciones

    Conversaciones 2020

    10 fantastic and dark conversations tell us the story of a Mexican family through the relations and conflicts of two brothers.

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  • Poster for The Bewitched House

    The Bewitched House 1949

    Stage magician Fu Manchu uses his illusions and trickeries to find a murderer.

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  • Poster for La garganta del diablo

    La garganta del diablo 2008

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  • Poster for Cora

    Cora 2024

    A woman compulsively accumulates black plastic bags in her bedroom closet. What's in the bags?

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  • Poster for The Specter's Road

    The Specter's Road 1967

    A group of people, including Capulina and Viruta, head towards the city by train. A heavy storm interrupts their journey and now they must take a haunted path to reach they city. (English Subtitled)

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  • Poster for Arsenio Lupin

    Arsenio Lupin 1947

    Arsenio Lupin is an audacious Parisian thief who mocks the police, especially Inspector Ganimard, but turns over most of his ill-gotten gains to charity. One night, he attends a party disguised as a newspaper writer who also mocks Ganimard; the next morning, the host's wife and a male guest are found murdered, and Ganimard arrives to solve the crime. A Mexican version of the Arsene Lupin character, with Sherlock Holmes tossed in as a cameo at the end.

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  • Poster for La mataviejitas

    La mataviejitas 2006

    The story of the serial killer "La Mataviejitas", a woman who murdered elderly people.

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  • Poster for Otto

    Otto 2016

    Based on a story by Stephen King, "Otto" is the story of an affected man that from a fatal incident, product of his sense of justice, leads him to develop a feel of guilt that goes from fear to resignation through different forms of human behavior.

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  • Poster for Circuito cerrado

    Circuito cerrado 2017

    Julián has a simple routine for every day: spying on Ana from the time she leaves until she returns home. Then Julián receives a call and reports all the activities.

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  • Poster for Thoroughbred

    Thoroughbred 2016

    5 professionals rob a Horce Racetrack and a Casino Complex but when one of them makes too many mistakes, the police starts a deadliest manhunt to recover the money.

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