Best Mexican short movies

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

  • Poster for Sister

    Sister 2018

    When left home alone, Dani will learn that her relationship with her older sister is worth more than what she made it out to be.

    80
  • Poster for Milk

    Milk 2017

    A couple struggles to pass time together because both work for the same company but in different shifts.

    73
  • 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.

    70
  • Poster for Memory

    Memory 0

    Documentary short about Mexico's femicide crisis.

    60
  • Poster for Susurro

    Susurro 2024

    Susurro is a sonic narrative film that follows the journey of two women who climb to the top of a desolate mountain searching for the whisper of the universe.

    60
  • Poster for Neapolitan Arrangement

    Neapolitan Arrangement 2020

    Sara, a flight attendant in her thirties, takes desperate measures when she starts to believe her ex-boyfriend might kidnap her son.

    60
  • Poster for Indignation

    Indignation 0

    Documentary short about Mexico's femicide crisis.

    60
  • Poster for Así sembramos nuestra agua

    Así sembramos nuestra agua 2019

    60
  • Poster for Junction

    Junction 2020

    A man awakens in a dystopian reality.

    60
  • Poster for Hipolita

    Hipolita 2020

    When an accident befalls Hipolita, her unusual ward finally has a chance at freedom.

    50
  • Poster for Slave

    Slave 2014

    14-year-old Ana is easily seduced by Sam, a 17 year-old young man who, along with his mother and others deceive and blackmail Ana into the world of prostitution. Ana will shortly discover soon that it is part of a network of trafficking in persons and tries to escape.

    50
  • Poster for While You're Asleep (My Weird Dreams Happen) – 4

    While You're Asleep (My Weird Dreams Happen) – 4 2020

    More nightmares about the things that happen when we close our eyes without us noticing.

    50
  • Poster for Huacal City

    Huacal City 2008

    The world is made of boxes. We live in them, we move within them, we see the world through them and we wind up in them in the end. Huacal City introduces us to the empty containers market at the Supply Center in Mexico City, where every day thousands of wooden boxes are bought, sold and repaired.

    50
  • Poster for La Linterna Mágica a la Inquisición

    La Linterna Mágica a la Inquisición 2009

    Andrew Oehler, illusionist and tailor's apprentice, born in Germany, departs to travel the world in search for his dreams. He takes his magic lantern and finally arrives in Mexico in 1805 bedazzling people wherever he goes. Can a few lights and mirrors provoke the wrath of the Inquisition?

    40
  • Poster for Making the Struggle

    Making the Struggle 1993

    A mexican wrestler's personal life struggles when he loses his fights.

    20
  • Poster for Goodbye Mom

    Goodbye Mom 1997

    A man on a supermarket encounters a woman who tells him he reminds her of her late son.

    20
  • Chinese Stories 1999

    The history of Chinese migration to Mexico, from its birth at the start of the twentieth century, through the Mexican revolution, the anti-Chinese movement, and up to the current state of Chinese migrants in the country. A documentary about xenophobia in Mexico and the search for identity of a group of people caught between two cultures.

    20
  • The Last Moon 1990

    The tale of a guard at Chapultepec Castle that has fallen in love with a beautiful ghost who haunts its hallowed halls, and his tragic but happy end.

    10
  • The Last New Year 1992

    Set on background of personal ceremonies and tradition, this is the story of a twelve year old boy. To him, the passing from one year to another coincides with his passing from childhood into adolescence.

    10
  • Vuelve a tu primer amor 1989

    Short film by Paco del Toro

    10