Best Mexican western movies

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

  • Poster for The Legend of Zorro

    The Legend of Zorro 2005

    Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Don Alejandro de la Vega and his wife, Elena, to take action.

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  • Poster for El Topo

    El Topo 1970

    El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.

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  • Poster for El Infierno

    El Infierno 2010

    After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.

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  • Poster for A Man Called Horse

    A Man Called Horse 1970

    In 1825, English peer Lord John Morgan is cast adrift in the American West. Captured by Sioux Indians, Morgan is at first targeted for quick extinction, but the tribesmen sense that he is worthy of survival. He eventually passes the many necessary tests that will permit him to become a member of the tribe.

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  • Poster for Pedro Páramo

    Pedro Páramo 2024

    A man searches for his father, Pedro Páramo, in a town doomed by violence and the fury of a frustrated love.

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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 Por mis pistolas

    Por mis pistolas 1968

    Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.

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  • Poster for The Beast of Hollow Mountain

    The Beast of Hollow Mountain 1956

    An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.

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  • Poster for El Siete Machos

    El Siete Machos 1951

    Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.

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  • Poster for Sitting Bull

    Sitting Bull 1954

    Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux tribe is forced by the Indian-hating General Custer to react with violence, resulting in the famous Last Stand at Little Bighorn. Parrish, a friend to the Sioux, tries to prevent the bloodshed, but is court- martialed for "collaborating" with the enemy. Sitting Bull, however, manages to intercede with President Grant on Parrish's behalf.

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  • El Jinete 2022

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  • Poster for Time to Die

    Time to Die 1966

    A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town circulated that he murdered the victim in cold blood. The ex-con wants to get his life together, but the two sons of the slain man are gunning for the man who killed their father.

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  • Poster for The Hawks

    The Hawks 1956

    The story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill each other. One of them belongs to Los Gavilanes, a group of men who live live hidden and looting to give to the poor. Revenge, love and hate will at the end bring out the truth and everyone will get what he deserves.

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  • Poster for Ahí viene Martín Corona

    Ahí viene Martín Corona 1952

    Martin Corona, player and womanizer, defends the underprivileged, the poor and the needy. He will have to defend a Spanish girl and her servant from the clutches of the villainous of the town. Not only will he have to fight the bad guy, but against the pride of the girl who initially believes that he is the bad character and distrusts him. She was very proud to put him at her feet, but there was a problem, Martin Corona was due more to his people than anyone and she was not willing to risk losing it, so before marrying him, made him swear he would not intervene In other problems.

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  • Poster for Sonora: The Devil’s Highway

    Sonora: The Devil’s Highway 2019

    1931, a year of nationalisms and excesses: The Chinese are expelled from Sonora; the US deports Mexicans and closes its borders. Twelve desperate people cross the Sonoran desert in a 1929 Chrysler, hoping to find peace in Baja California. As their sojourn exposes both the best and the worst of human nature, racism, greed, and paranoia prove as deadly as the merciless landscape around them.

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  • Poster for El enamorado

    El enamorado 1952

    Martin retired from his job as a hero because of his marriage to Rosario, a beautiful and ambitious girl who passed through the workshop where he works. However, Martin has to return in principle to help a friend from robbers.

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  • Poster for Charrito

    Charrito 1984

    Charrito is the villain actor in a movie, which is filmed in a town, that only produces headaches to the director, for being extremely distracted

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  • Poster for Cuidado con el amor

    Cuidado con el amor 1954

    Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise upon entering the hom he realizes that Ana and her mother live in it, provoking a funny entanglement with an explosive final.

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  • Poster for Mighty Victoria

    Mighty Victoria 2021

    Feature film located at the beginning of the 20th-century which tells the story of the town "La Esperanza", whose dying mining boom receives a fatal blow.

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  • Poster for One Man's Hero

    One Man's Hero 1999

    One Man's Hero tells the little-known story of the "St. Patrick's Battalion" or "San Patricios," a group of mostly Irish and other immigrants of the Catholic faith who deserted to Mexico after encountering religious and ethnic prejudice in the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War. The plot centers around the personal story of John Riley, an Irishman who had been a sergeant in the American Army who is commissioned as a captain in the Mexican army and commands the battalion, as he leads his men in battle and struggles with authorities on both sides of the border

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  • Poster for El Arracadas

    El Arracadas 1978

    Mariano Landeros is sworn by his mother to look for the murderer of his father at all costs, the proof would bring that Doroteo Carrillo earring snatched his mother when it happened the asesinato.Mariano part unstoppably to find the murderer finding in the way love, hate and violence.

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  • Poster for Doña Bárbara

    Doña Bárbara 1943

    A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.

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  • Poster for Frontier

    Frontier 2018

    Texas, 1848. Families are being forced off their land by the settlers who come to colonize this unpopulated state. A battle for the land and oil ensues.

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  • Poster for Juan Armenta, the repatriated

    Juan Armenta, the repatriated 1976

    Juan returns home to Mexico after working in the USA for awhile, and gets caught up in cowboy problems among his townsfolk.

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  • Poster for My Son, the Hero

    My Son, the Hero 1961

    Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.

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  • Poster for A Real Man

    A Real Man 1983

    Unsympathetic portrait of a man who's too macho to display his feelings.

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  • Poster for En defensa propia

    En defensa propia 1978

    The leading edge of working-class discontent in a Mexican village is a troop of bandits hiding out in the hills; when the bandit leader is killed, the whole town rises up.

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  • Poster for The Rider of the Skulls

    The Rider of the Skulls 1965

    Episodic film in which a masked hero combats a trio of classic monsters.

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  • Poster for Guns and Guts

    Guns and Guts 1974

    An outlaw and a scorned husband both team up to track down and kill the man that wronged them. Along the way, the two men meet a hired gun that loves money just as much as he loves the company of women, so the two men decide to hire him in order to help them on their mission. However, things become complicated when the man they all seek to kill has risen to become a wealthy sheriff with a small army of gunmen at his disposal.

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  • Poster for The White Horse

    The White Horse 1962

    Claimed by his grandmother, who lives in a Mexican village, Joselito begins the journey from Spain. Once there, while traveling in a stagecoach, is assaulted by bandits. Joselito manages to escape and, walking aimlessly, he meets Antoine, a rider who is ex officio of random player, and become close friends.

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  • Poster for La Generala

    La Generala 1971

    During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in love with a revolutionary leader that is killed by a sadistic and corrupt federal officer. She takes the revolutionary flag and leads a rampage of violence and destruction.

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  • Poster for La Choca

    La Choca 1974

    A smuggler lives far from civilization, in a hut in the jungle with his wife, La Choca, his son and his sister-in-law Flor. One day some men arrive, who accuse him of having betrayed them.

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  • Poster for The Sheriff's Strange Son

    The Sheriff's Strange Son 1986

    In a small western town, a father obliges a doctor to separate two conjoined twins in a very hazardous operation. One of the children dies but years after seems to have survived as his brother's second personality.

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  • Poster for The Devil's Horse

    The Devil's Horse 1975

    Highly convoluted Mexican concoction involving the titular 'Devil's Horse' and a violent son brought back to life, courtesy of the aforementioned Devil who begins straight away to be even more violent then before, this time extending his violence to women and animals.

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  • Poster for Macho Callahan

    Macho Callahan 1971

    A man tricked into enlisting in the Confederate army is later thrown into a hellish stockade on desertion charges. He eventually breaks out of the prison camp, reunites with his old partner and sets out to kill the man who was responsible for his being in the camp in the first place. However, after accidentally killing a Confederate officer, he finds himself pursued by a gang of vicious bounty hunters intent on collecting the reward put up by the dead officer's widow.

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  • Poster for The Living Coffin

    The Living Coffin 1959

    A cowboy and his sidekick meet a ranching family that is haunted by spirits and vampires.

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  • Poster for ¡En peligro de muerte!

    ¡En peligro de muerte! 1962

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  • Poster for El hombre de negro

    El hombre de negro 1969

    After his family is murdered by bandits, a young man enlists a wandering cowboy to teach him to gunsling.

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  • Poster for Los dos hermanos

    Los dos hermanos 1971

    A rich and powerful man is married to a much younger woman, who has a lover.

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  • Poster for The Unknown Cowboy

    The Unknown Cowboy 1967

    The Sheriff of a small town, in his search of a robber bank, gets to another city, working undercover. There, he tooks the place of man recently killed, and falls in love with his widow.

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  • Poster for The Four Juanes

    The Four Juanes 1966

    Juan Sin Fiedo (Javier Solis), Juan Colorado (Antonio Aguilar), Juan Pistolas (Luis Aguilar) and Juan Charrasqueado join their destinies during the Mexican Revolution.

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  • Poster for Aquel famoso Remington

    Aquel famoso Remington 1982

    Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.

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  • Poster for Cuchillo

    Cuchillo 1978

    After the 14th Ammendment to the US Constitution, everyone has rights - except the Native Americans. Cavalry Army General Boyd applies that by breaking past treaties with the Apaches, and suppressing them in the territory under his command. A young Apache - named Cuchillo/Knife, after the massacre of his tribe - is taught that he is the gods' send to protect his people. Brought up to be a great warrior, he will attempt to reason with Boyd, and then fight an uneven battle against the Blue Demons.

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  • Poster for Funeral de Emiliano Zapata

    Funeral de Emiliano Zapata 1919

    A footage showing a crowd coming to Cuautla for the famous revolutionary leader's funerals.

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  • Poster for Hot Snake

    Hot Snake 1978

    A sadistic and ruthless outlaw has been terrorizing the town of Hot Snake. A bounty hunter named Emiliano is hired by the local sheriff to hunt down the outlaw after he murders a woman and steals money belonging to the Army. Warned by a local bruja not to take the bounty, Emiliano soon finds himself the target of a mysterious man who seeks to settle a personal vendetta.

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  • Poster for El tunco Maclovio

    El tunco Maclovio 1969

    Maclovio, an infamous gunfighter with only one hand, is hired by a rich lady to kill her daughters boyfriend. Maclovio believes he can live in peace after the job but a mysterious man who claims to have unfinished business with him appears.

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  • Poster for Hard Breed to Kill

    Hard Breed to Kill 1967

    A band of outlaws appear out of nowhere on a ranchers property and viciously shoot him down. They steal what they can from his ranch and kidnap his wife. They make for the Mexican border, but something starts stalking them. From: Exploitation.TV

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  • Poster for Los dos rivales

    Los dos rivales 1966

    Ranchera comedy -- the hero thinks his girlfriend has another suitor... but the suitor is really she herself in man-drag.

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  • Poster for The Hidden One

    The Hidden One 1956

    Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is much-sought-after by high-society men, but she cannot forget her love for a rebel leader.

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  • Poster for Los diablos del terror

    Los diablos del terror 1959

    A federal policeman arrives in a town ravaged by a cult of hooded men who leave a satanic face on their victims.

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  • El último pistolero 1969

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  • The Forgiven 2022

    After a powerful crime boss gets his most valuable possesion stolen, he employs a young cowboy bounty hunter called Tex to find and bring back Hunted, the boy who stole his diamond egg in search for water. Tex, motivated by his own scores to settle, goes on his journey to find the boy but is unaware another hunter shares the same goal as him to collect Hunted's capture reward. As Tex goes along in his mission he must face decisions of revenge or forgiveness, battling foes and even himself... in this approach of a more modern era of a western.

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  • Poster for Capulina Speedy González

    Capulina Speedy González 1970

    Pony Express mailman in old west discovers super-powered chiles, gets tangled up with bank robbers.

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  • Poster for Los muertos no hablan

    Los muertos no hablan 1958

    Bandit crew with mysterious masked leader is doing lots of crimes. Mauricio Rosales and his sidekick ride into town all incognito and stuff to set things right.

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  • Poster for The Children of Satan

    The Children of Satan 1972

    Two sworn enemies must put aside their differences and join forces to catch a gang of thieves led by a woman called "The Yara". They must fight to save their village from the bandits and do everything necessary to prevent The Yara from controlling their destinies.

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  • Poster for Ghost Town

    Ghost Town 1963

    A vampire is on the loose in an old west town.

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  • Poster for Crisol

    Crisol 1967

    Hired killer is contracted to do a hit... against his better judgement.

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  • Poster for El juez de la soga

    El juez de la soga 1973

    In the Old West, a gunfighter punishes the wrongdoers making justice himself, but his mother's words continue to fill his mind: "Justice is divine". Nonetheless, he goes on hanging the culprits, becoming quite famous. When a bunch of outlaws lead by a crooked landlord treats an innocent village and a beautiful girl, the time for the avenger's final mission is arrived.

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  • Poster for Indio

    Indio 1972

    A greedy land developer steals the land from an Apache Indian tribe. His plan involves shooting most of the Apaches but an Apache warrior survives and gets revenge.

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  • Poster for The Coyote

    The Coyote 1955

    California, 1848. An invading army has defeated the few opposing forces and the territory has become part of the United States. Don César de Echagüe, an old gentleman, begs his son César to return from Europe, confident that he will know how to confront the oppressor.

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  • Poster for Everything In Vain

    Everything In Vain 1969

    Gunfighters kill all family members of farmer brothers Mario and Fernando Almada, after the tragic event, they seek revenge.

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  • Poster for Gabino Barrera

    Gabino Barrera 1965

    Famed Mexican action and music star Antonio Aguilar brings blazing charisma to the title role of Gabino Barrera, a 19th-century reformer and fighter for the common people. Barrera, a self-styled Robin Hood of the Wild West, becomes a local folk hero whose noble exploits are celebrated in song throughout his town in this rousing adventure. The film, which spawned several sequels, also stars Maria Duval and Jaime Fernandez.

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  • Poster for To Hell with Women

    To Hell with Women 1955

    Small-town elects a female mayor. She suppresses all the time-honored masculine pastimes, and the men rebel.

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  • Poster for Warden of Red Rock

    Warden of Red Rock 2001

    In 1910, John Flinders is warden of Red Rock Territorial Prison, in Arizona. When a condemned man's last request brings Flinders into contact with the man's widow, Flinders finds himself falling in love. Meanwhile, a new convict, Mike Sullivan, turns out to be an old friend of Flinders'. They talk over old times, but it's clear that Sullivan has plans to leave the prison before his time is up. When those plans come to pass, Flinders sets out to re-take his old pal.

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  • Poster for Single Action

    Single Action 1998

    The killing of a political leader shatters the peace of a small Mexican town. MANCO, the brother of the murdered presidential candidate knows the killer and sets out to exact his revenge. Arriving to investigate the assassination is special agent AMIGO from the Mexican Intelligence. Amigo quickly strikes up a friendship with a local hotel owner who fills him in on the town's seedy characters and gives Amigo a Single Action revolver. The stage is set for Amigo and Manco to join forces and take down the powerful and dangerous CAMARO family responsible for the murder and the corruption of the town. To gain the confidence of Camaro, Amigo breaks his top henchman out of jail. Amigo is welcomed into the Camaro gang. Camaro soon discovers Amigo's connection with Manco and plots to take him out. The situation reaches a boiling point on the US/Mexican border when Amigo, Manco, and Camaro meet for an old-fashioned Western shootout where truth and justice prevail in one single action.

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  • Entrada de Villa y Zapata a la Ciudad de México 1914

    The famous video of the historical event in which the two most loved revolutionary leaders met each other.

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