Best Mexican animation movies
A curated collection of popular animation movies from Mexico.

La Fuente de La Princesa (2020)
La Fuente de La Princesa (2020)

Olimpia (2018)
Olimpia (2018)
The film tells the story of Raquel, Rodolfo and Hernán, members of a brigade at the UNAM during the student movement in Mexico in 1968. Through their photographs, films and writings, we will know the history of the day that the army took the university and how their students united, shouted and never forgot.

Faith (2004)
Faith (2004)
A bridge is falling, and now just one hero can save us... what if he make a mistake?.

Pickman's Model (2014)
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.

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

La Linterna Mágica a la Inquisición (2009)
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?

La Familia del Barrio: La Película (2024)
La Familia del Barrio: La Película (2024)
El Noruego travels back in time and accidentally prevents the War of Independence by getting Miguel Hidalgo drunk before giving the cry.

Sed de Sangre (0)
Sed de Sangre (0)

The Inksect (2016)
The Inksect (2016)
In a dystopian future where fossil fuels were exhausted, ruling corporations had turned to desperate measures to generate energy. Books were banned and confiscated as fuel for the fire, and with them free thinking had been lost. Human beings had morphed into illiterate cockroaches. In New York City an underground group of exiled scientists, writers and artists were the last bastion of those who remembered the books. The group risked their lives to seek the books, and save them from being destroyed. They are known as The Inksect. This is the story of how one of their own, Pikes, on a book quest is led to an even more important discovery: paper, pen and literacy.

Mates (2023)
Mates (2023)
This is a story about soulmates, and how a relationship - of any kind - isn't black and white, it's a life full of color. Sometimes just one person is enough for us to feel less lonely.

Last Stop (2017)
Last Stop (2017)
A man walks in search of a way to get home. The way back won´t be what he expected.

Black Doll (2011)
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.

Dilution (2025)
Dilution (2025)
Dilution is an experimental short film that explores the transit between resistance and (di)ssolution, between holding and releasing and a path towards obsessive repetition. They are layers, exposed pores, matter that oscillates between remaining or disappearing. The sound is not a background, but a puncture: friction, tearing, water that drags what still persists. A sensorial testimony of what refuses to vanish completely.

Cri Cri el Grillito Cantor (1963)
Cri Cri el Grillito Cantor (1963)
Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.

Bartolo's Flute (1997)
Bartolo's Flute (1997)
A journey that begins in prehistory, passes through the Mesoamerican peoples, and shows the instruments that were used in the conquest and the colony, in order to learn about the evolution of Mexican music.

The Legend of La Llorona (2011)
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.

The Legend of the Nahuala (2007)
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.

La Leyenda de los Chaneques (2023)
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.
Tío (2021)
Tío (2021)

Uncle (2022)
Uncle (2022)
On his first day of work as a miner, Martin, a cocky teenager, will learn the importance of rituals and respect for ancestors.

Martyris (2010)
Martyris (2010)
In a dismal and decadent world, a little Saint cares for various beings with suicidal tendencies. A strange visit warns the Saint not to interfere with the supreme order of things, whereby the natural law of martyrs takes precedence over kindness and affection

Line 17 (2021)
Line 17 (2021)
A young woman is stalked by a wicked entity in subway cars in Latin America.

Do Not Touch (2020)
Do Not Touch (2020)
A bored kid wanders into the darkest masterpiece of an eerie museum.

El origen de las minas de sal de San Mateo (2020)

Salma's Big Wish (2019)
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.

A Costume for Nicolas (2021)
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.

El Doctor (2006)
El Doctor (2006)
In a crumbling 1920s Mexican hospital, patients with bizarre afflictions are in constant need of medical attention, but the miserable doctor in charge prefers to drink. However, an encounter with the Saint of Holes will rearrange the doctor's fate, sending him on a journey of altered perspective.

Angel On The Clock (2017)
Angel On The Clock (2017)
A girl with leukemia meets the strange angel that lives on her watch, so she asks him to stop the time.

De Raíz (2004)
De Raíz (2004)
Confrontation between creation and intolerance