Best Mexican romance movies

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

  • Poster for Y Tu Mamá También

    Y Tu Mamá También 2001

    In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.

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  • Poster for Like Water for Chocolate

    Like Water for Chocolate 1992

    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, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.

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  • Poster for 4 Moons

    4 Moons 2014

    Four interwoven stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male cousin. Two former childhood friends reunite and start a relationship that gets complicated due to one of them’s fear of getting caught. A gay long lasting relationship is in jeopardy when a third man comes along. An old family man is obsessed with a young male prostitute and tries to raise the money to afford the experience.

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  • Poster for Anonymously Yours

    Anonymously Yours 2021

    After an accidental text message turns into a digital friendship, Vale and Alex start crushing on each other without realizing they've met in real life.

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  • Poster for Our Times

    Our Times 2025

    Husband and wife Nora and Héctor's scientific breakthrough lets them time travel from 1966 to 2025. As Héctor struggles, Nora thrives—but at what cost?

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  • Poster for The Crime of Padre Amaro

    The Crime of Padre Amaro 2002

    Sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito, young Father Amaro faces a moral challenge when he meets a 16-year-old girl who he starts an affair with. Likewise, the girl's mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. Father Amaro must choose between a holy or sinful life.

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  • Poster for Bel Canto

    Bel Canto 2018

    A famous opera singer is held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing at a Japanese businessman's lavish birthday party. Unexpected bonds are forged in the standoff that ensues.

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  • Poster for Don't Blame the Kid

    Don't Blame the Kid 2016

    After a one-night stand results in pregnancy, a young woman decides to become partners with the emotionally immature father-to-be.

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  • Poster for Book of Love

    Book of Love 2022

    Henry, an English writer who has written a new book that has become a failure in the U.K, gets notified that the dull book has been highly trending over in Mexico. Little does he know that Maria, a Spanish translator, turned the book into an erotic novel. Henry and Maria then swerve around Mexico to do a book tour and go through a wind of events.

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  • Poster for In a Relationship

    In a Relationship 2018

    Long-term couple Owen and Hallie are breaking up—or maybe not?—and just as their relationship reaches a turning point, Matt and Willa embark on a romance of their own.

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  • Poster for The Red Thread

    The Red Thread 2025

    Abril, a rebellious and daring stewardess, and Manuel, a shy and traditional businessman, meet on a plane and instantly feel an undeniable attraction.

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  • Poster for You've Got This

    You've Got This 2020

    An ad creative and a successful exec have a great marriage — until he wants to be a dad just as her star is rising. Then he brings someone new home.

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  • Poster for Bella

    Bella 2006

    An international soccer star is on his way to sign a multimillion dollar contract when something happens that brings his career to an abrupt end. A beautiful waitress, struggling to make it in New York City, discovers something about herself that she's unprepared for. In one irreversible moment, their lives are turned upside down.

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  • Poster for Heli

    Heli 2013

    Heli must try and protect his young family when his 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world. He must battle against the drug cartel that have been angered as well as the corrupt police force.

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  • Poster for Fando and Lis

    Fando and Lis 1970

    Fando and his partially paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky's memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal.

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  • Poster for Nine Lives

    Nine Lives 2005

    Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

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  • Poster for Ready to Mingle

    Ready to Mingle 2019

    A wannabe bride seeks professional help to find a husband and in the process finds herself.

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  • Poster for Él

    Él 1953

    Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.

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  • Poster for Silent Light

    Silent Light 2007

    Johan and his family are Mennonites from the north of Mexico. Against the law of God and Man, Johan falls in love with another woman.

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  • Poster for Love Hurts

    Love Hurts 2002

    Family and friends try to sabotage the budding romance between a young upper class girl and a humble student.

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  • Poster for Pink Zone

    Pink Zone 1976

    In a whorehouse in Acapulco, lives Leonor, a young and beautiful woman who is awaiting to reunite with an old lover. Suddenly, the man reappears to take her away from her life of vice. But the debt owed by Leonor to the "Madame" of the house causes a series of conflicts.

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  • Poster for Tales of an Immoral Couple

    Tales of an Immoral Couple 2016

    Lucio and Martina used to share an indescribable chemistry during their highschool years, however, they took separate ways. 25 years later they meet again, but this time they decide to invent an ideal life in order to hide themselves from an inevitable truth: they were really waiting for each other in all of these years.

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  • Poster for Cindy La Regia

    Cindy La Regia 2020

    When Cindy decides that she doesn't want to marry her boyfriend, she runs to Mexico City, where new friendships and unexpected paths teach her that there are so much more possibilities on her life and her talent than she imagines.

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  • Poster for Zorro, The Gay Blade

    Zorro, The Gay Blade 1981

    In 19th century Mexico, legendary swordsman Zorro has passed on his weapon and his sense of duty to his noble son, Diego, a dashing swashbuckler like his father. But after an injury sidelines Diego, he is forced to hand the mask over to his twin, Ramon.

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  • Poster for Sex, Shame & Tears

    Sex, Shame & Tears 1999

    A comedic drama featuring two couples and two old friends in Mexico City. Tomas visits Carlos and Ana, while Miguel and Andrea are joined by Maria. The presence of guests triggers lust, rejection, infidelities, reconciliation and other consequences.

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  • Poster for Pulling Strings

    Pulling Strings 2013

    Rachel is an intelligent, modern-day woman constantly on the move. Primarily focused on her career as a diplomatic consul for the U.S. embassy, she's literally lived her life on the move, globe-trotting from city to city. Currently working in Mexico City and set to leave for London, Rachel's world turns upside down on the eve of her own goodbye party when she gets drunk and passes out on the street. Saved by Alejandro, a handsome Mariachi singer and single father, Rachel wakes up in his apartment with no recollection of how she got there. Nor does she remember that she rejected his visa the day before, which he desperately needs for his daughter. Romance unexpectedly blossoms between the two, but either sparks or fists will fly after she finds out his secret.

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  • Poster for Sólo con tu pareja

    Sólo con tu pareja 1992

    Tomás Tomás is a young yuppie playboy with a string of discarded girlfriends. But when Silvia, the victim of one of his adventures, tries to get revenge by typing "positive" on his AIDS test, Tomás experiences for the first time the realities of love and death.

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  • Poster for Leap Year

    Leap Year 2010

    Journalist Laura works at home, isolating herself from others. While she lies to her mother and brother, Raul, on the phone about having an active social life, Laura's days consist of gazing at her neighbors, eating canned food and going to clubs to bring home strangers. As the anniversary of her father's death draws near, Laura develops a relationship with Arturo, a charismatic actor who shares her taste for rough sex.

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  • Poster for Tear This Heart Out

    Tear This Heart Out 2008

    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 account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.

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  • Poster for My Brother's Wife

    My Brother's Wife 2005

    After almost 10 years of marriage, attractive Zoe discovers that her marriage lacks passion and surprise, and is seduced by the possibility of finding those sensations already forgotten in her husband's brother. From this premise a series of events lead these three characters to a dangerous game of revenges, secrets and passions. Two brothers and one woman: the triangle is outlined in a disquieting way. It is a bomb that triggers family secrets, the contained rage of desire and the unmanageable power of love. An exciting story that subjugates the viewer from beginning to end. Even though Zoe/Sonia has been married to Ignacio/Ishan for about a decade, they are unable to have children. She wants to be intimate but he prefers to be ready for intimacy on Saturdays only, and she gets physically drawn to his artistic brother, Gonzalo/Rohan. Then things get complicated for her after she tests positive for motherhood and finds that her husband may be gay.

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  • Poster for Don't Blame Karma!

    Don't Blame Karma! 2022

    The travails of Sara, a frustrated fashion designer who blames karma for her bad luck. Fate will put her face to face with her sister, Lucy, who enjoys very different luck, and in a series of events and reunions that will lead her to make a radical decision.

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  • Poster for Get Married If You Can

    Get Married If You Can 2014

    Ana Paula catches her fiancé cheating. After a night of drinking, she wakes up far from home, not so certain she wants to go back.

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  • Poster for I Do...Knot

    I Do...Knot 2009

    Sebastian is very lucky with women, going to parties and getting drunk every night. His mother asks him to change his way of life but he refuses to stop partying and meeting new women. One day, after one night of serious partying he wakes up with a beautiful woman named Alexa. He realizes he got married to her, but he can't remember anything about it. And being married is a serious problem for a man like him.

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  • Poster for Perras

    Perras 2011

    Something terrible is happening in class 3A at Calmecatl Junior High. No one can leave the classroom until the guilty party is found. This is the device that gives us a glimpse of the ethics, games, esthetics and eroticism of these girl-women. It is not easy to say what the subject is, there are so many: the discovery of sexuality, discrimination, chance, drugs, maternity, traditions, betrayals, power, love. A mural of a complex reality from the point of view of twenty-something women in the skin of 14 to 15 year old girls.

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  • Poster for The Lift

    The Lift 2021

    On their fifth wedding anniversary, Sitio and Ana start arguing inside an elevator that keeps opening in their same floor. Emotionally and physically trapped, the two will have to work together to find a way out.

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  • Poster for Weeding Night

    Weeding Night 2024

    Lucía and Nico, the couple of the century, are about to say yes... although not with each other. It turns out that they both decided to get married on the same day and in the same place, but with other people.

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  • Poster for Dos tipos de cuidado

    Dos tipos de cuidado 1953

    Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.

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  • Poster for Firma Aquí

    Firma Aquí 2024

    In this world he already realized that love forever is impossible. That's why there is a company that finds the perfect love every four years. After spending a few days on break, Fran meets Roque, who immediately begins to win her heart despite not understanding each other at first. But as time progresses, they learn to know each other and Fran experiences a sensation that she had never felt before. Would it be tragic if they decide to stay together for more than 4 years?

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  • Johanne Sacreblu "El Musical" 2025

    Johanne Sacreblu, a trans woman, heiress of the largest producer of baguettes, falls in love with Agtugo Ratatouille, a trans man and the heir of the largest croissant empire in France.

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  • Poster for It's Not You, It's Me

    It's Not You, It's Me 2010

    Javier se ha casado con María, el amor de su vida, y ahora lo único que desea es estar feliz con ella el resto de su vida, pero el destino se la quita poco después de la boda. Ahora Javier está enredado en sus emociones: ¿cómo aceptará la muerte de su mujer para encontrar nuevamente el amor?

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  • Poster for Miles and Lies

    Miles and Lies 2023

    Lu has a perfect life. Or so she pretends to have. She meets the handsome, short-tempered Argentinian, Diego, who is on a visit to Mexico, and she is confident to get him head over heels in love with her. In order to win a wager with her friends, her life will take a turn when she does the impossible to win him over, including taking a trip to Argentina to look for him.

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  • Poster for Tell Me When

    Tell Me When 2020

    After his grandfather's death, a young man decides to fulfill his elder's last wish with the help of his new friends. The problem starts when he falls in love with a female friend who may not feel the same.

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  • Poster for Pastorela

    Pastorela 2011

    Agent Jesus Juarez (aka Chucho) has always played the Devil in his town's Nativity Play. This Christmas, when the new pastor of the church recasts the role, the two men engage in a battle between good and evil.

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  • Poster for With You in the Future

    With You in the Future 2025

    Carlos and Elena are about to sign a divorce when they receive an unexpected gift that will allow them to travel back in time. Back in the '90s, that nostalgic era of leather jackets, rowdy hairstyles and pop-rock, they will seek to change their destiny.

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  • Poster for The Brute

    The Brute 1953

    A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.

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  • Poster for Te Presento a Laura

    Te Presento a Laura 2010

    This is the story of 23-year-old Laura who lives in the largest city in the world and yet feels alone. She also knows the exact date in which she'll die: April 30. What Laura doesn't know is what she'll do from now till then, and thus she enrolls in a group of optimists, which she finds pathetic but fun. In that group she writes a list of 10 things she wants to do before she dies, some that mean a lot and some that are a lot of fun. The first thing on her list is to save a life.

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  • Poster for Nada que ver

    Nada que ver 2023

    After Carlos is tasked to care for Paola, both characters must work out their differences to make their time together more pleasant. As time goes on, they are faced with lessons about trust, mutual respect, and perhaps love.

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  • Poster for My Best Friend's Wedding

    My Best Friend's Wedding 2019

    A woman is determined to stop the wedding of her best friend, since she has been secretly in love with him.

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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 School for Tramps

    School for Tramps 1955

    Alberto Medina is a famous composer whose car breaks down while he is on a trip. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcomed in by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for taking in tramps.

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  • Poster for I Wanted to Find You

    I Wanted to Find You 2018

    Diego, just a few weeks away from his wedding to Julia, the perfect bride, is forced by his father to remodel a hotel he destroyed during his wild bachelor party. There, he meets Lu, the hotel manager, a free-spirited, bold, and beautiful woman; the kind of woman who turns your life upside down. Lu will make Diego confront himself and take control of his life for the first time.

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  • Poster for The Three Garcías

    The Three Garcías 1947

    Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.

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  • Poster for Not A Minute To Lose

    Not A Minute To Lose 2019

    Elisa is an old-fashioned girl who receives the visit of her future self, who advises her to take the risk and invite Carlos, his best friend, on a date. She has always been attracted to him.

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  • Poster for Straight

    Straight 2024

    Roberto is a successful 32-year-old banker with a demanding life and a job that occupies him even on the weekends; a talented girlfriend, Elia, with whom he has been in a relationship for six years; and in his free time a little soccer, beer and Cris, a 20-year-old boy he meets on a gay dating app. Cris will make him rethink whether he has the life he wants or the one he's expected to have.

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  • Poster for Enamorada

    Enamorada 1946

    In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.

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  • Poster for Anoche soñé contigo

    Anoche soñé contigo 1992

    Two teenage friends spend their summer break preparing for the sexual conquests they hope to experience. That is, until one of the boys is visited by his older, more sexually aggressive cousin, Azucena. Ushering her naïve cousin into the world of sex could take more work than Azucena realized.

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  • Poster for Tired of Kissing Frogs

    Tired of Kissing Frogs 2006

    A romantic comedy about a young interior decorator who, as a result of a romantic disappointment, becomes the female counterpart of Don Juan. The misadventures of the manizer make her rediscover the value of love.

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  • Poster for Maria Candelaria

    Maria Candelaria 1944

    A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She is protected by a young Indian man, Lorenzo Rafael, who has fallen in love with her.

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  • Poster for The Blue Room

    The Blue Room 2002

    A couple meet each other often in a motel room.

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  • Poster for Plan V

    Plan V 2018

    Paula, who is beautiful and full of life, ends with her boyfriend and is left devastated; her friends Fer and Jen decide to create a plan to find her the ideal boy: to find a virgin guy who can fall in love with her.

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  • Poster for The Honorary Consul

    The Honorary Consul 1983

    Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum, a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep Revolution from occurring. He is also a remorseful alcoholic. Another person the doctor meets is Clara, whom he immediately falls in love with, but there is a problem: Clara is Charley's wife.

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  • Poster for Unhappily Ever After

    Unhappily Ever After 2023

    María José and Alfredo are about to celebrate their 20th anniversary and their children give them a trip to the hotel where they celebrated their honeymoon, but a spell will make them repeat the same day.

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  • Poster for The Empty Hours

    The Empty Hours 2013

    Stuck managing his uncle's deserted motel on Veracruz's lonely coast, 17-year-old Sebastian finds solace in unexpected company. Miranda, a beautiful yet seemingly forlorn guest, whiles away the hours waiting for her perpetually late lover. As conversations between them blossom into a connection neither anticipated, a forbidden spark ignites. Will they succumb to the fiery temptation of a fleeting passion, or will they cage their desires for a life dictated by circumstance?

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  • Poster for Tizoc

    Tizoc 1957

    An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.

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  • Poster for Tintorera: Killer Shark

    Tintorera: Killer Shark 1977

    Two shark hunters flirt with an attractive British lady while hunting down a large tiger shark terrorizing the Mexican East coast.

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  • Poster for The Black Widow

    The Black Widow 1977

    Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest.

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