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

The Sheriff's Strange Son (1986)
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.
The Devil Gunman (1974)
The Devil Gunman (1974)
A man is continuously vilified by the other members of the small community in which he lives. One day he meets a strange "doctor" who offers him a great ability with the gun through mysterious magical arts. The man accepts and his vengeance begins. But the price to be paid for the newly acquired skills could be too high.

Vacation of Terror II: Diabolical Birthday (1991)
Vacation of Terror II: Diabolical Birthday (1991)
Julio is back, quietly running an antique shop, when a chance encounter with singer Mayra and her younger sister brings him face to face with the evil doll again!

All of Them Witches (1996)
All of Them Witches (1996)
Something strange is going on in Dolores' apartment house--or is it mainly in Dolores' head that the strangeness lies... When her best friend Eva is murdered on her doorstep, and her husband begins to have violent nightmares, it appears that there is definately something amiss in the world of delusional Dolores.
Now You See Me... - Part 2 (2019)
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.

The Sleeping Beauty (1952)
The Sleeping Beauty (1952)
A Mexican comedy loosely playing off of the tale of Sleeping Beauty. A caveman wakes up after a thousand year slumber. When he awakens he is seen as a wonder to behold, and discovers his ancient love and romantic rival are seemingly still alive as well.

La edad de piedra (1964)
La edad de piedra (1964)
Capulina chip and are transported back to prehistoric times with a time machine. There they live crazy adventures.

The Age of Flowering Plants (2025)
The Age of Flowering Plants (2025)
Valeria works in a nocturnal flower shop where the plants emit eroticism. In her circle of friends, some humans have long, pointed ears, others have wings. Filmmaker Magaly Ugarte de Pablo tells a supernatural tale with roots in the Mexican fantasy tradition and a futuristic gender perspective. A gothic universe of self-discoveries, sexual awakenings and human beings in metamorphosis.

Planet of the Female Invaders (1966)
Planet of the Female Invaders (1966)
A group of sexy space vixens flies down to Earth, sets up a shop at a carnival (disguising their ship as a ride), and kidnap some earthlings in their scheme to conquer our planet. The humans, including Marcos, a crooked boxer and our hero, Silvia, his love interest, and a gang of comical mobsters out to kill Marcos, are taken to the women’s home planet. There they are held prisoner by the evil queen Adastrea and aided by her selfless twin Alburnia. Meanwhile, a standard issue hunky scientist back on Earth, who happens to be Silvia’s boss, tries to rescue them.

The New Invisible Man (1958)
The New Invisible Man (1958)
A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television.

El futbolista fenómeno (1979)
El futbolista fenómeno (1979)
A beer seller is kidnapped by martians, who give him special powers to become a super football player.

Aztech (2020)
Aztech (2020)
Fragments of a meteor crash in Mexico and United States. Thirteen stories in different spaces and times happen in places of collisions .

Planetary Giants (1966)
Planetary Giants (1966)
Daniel Wolf, scientist with a brand new rocket ship and a girlfriend/secretary is sent to 'the planet of the eternal night' to fight the guy who has threatened earth. He is supposed to go alone, but his assistant sneaks in the ship somehow, along with two other guys.

The Fist of Death (1982)
The Fist of Death (1982)
In the far east the star of great power is stolen by an ambitious woman, who was jealous of the jungle girl who was sent by the gods, also succeeds in kidnapping her. This mission will only be solved by Santo, the masked man of silver who will have to save the girl and recover the star to return the tranquility to the town.

Mexico 2000 (1983)
Mexico 2000 (1983)
In Olympus the Gods decide to exterminate humanity, after deliberating one of the gods advocates not to exterminate those who live in Mexico, which in the year 2000 is a paradise where all calamities have been extinguished.

Robbery of the Mummies of Guanajuato (1972)
Robbery of the Mummies of Guanajuato (1972)
The Count Cagliostro and scientist Raymond discovered a component that is only found in the mines of Guanajuato, this serves to create a formula to help them in their plans to conquer the world.

The Juniors y La Fórmula Imperial (2023)
The Juniors y La Fórmula Imperial (2023)
7 multimillionaire boys who venture into planning a social revolution, generated by video scandals and medical experiments. Its aim is to generate a change in the world's ideology and its problems with discrimination, sexting, cyber-bullying, their fathers, the conflict between social classes and the confrontation with their domestic girls. The film tells the life of Austin, a boy with absent and mysterious parents, who has a risky life changing the scientific and biological patterns in the world. The plot revolves around Austin Ibargüengoitia's obsessive intention and his close relationship with his best friends and money, creating a movement called "The Distortionist Movement", this movement tries to alter conventional social norms, its goal: to create a higher economic class than the existing one, but to reveal it, these seven teenage billionaires, set out to prove their loyalty by doing a task that will shake the world, in doing so they will reveal a school that has existed in ...

Dos Nacos en el Planeta de las Mujeres (1991)
Dos Nacos en el Planeta de las Mujeres (1991)
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Not A Minute To Lose (2019)
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.

The Secret (2010)
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.

The Crying Woman (1960)
The Crying Woman (1960)
A woman takes revenge in the family of her lover.

Otto (2016)
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.

Caperucita y sus tres amigos (1961)
Caperucita y sus tres amigos (1961)
Villagers think the Big Bad Wolf has returned to his fierce, wild-animal ways. Also gypsies.

Death in Love (1951)
Death in Love (1951)
A man's life changes forever when death -- in the form of a female grim reaper -- moves in with him and his family, all so that he can buy a bit more time on earth. The only catch is, his family has no idea that their houseguest, a woman their father says is a foreign relative, is there to take their daddy away. Miroslava Stern, Fernando Fernandez and Jorge Reyes star in this inventive Spanish-language comedy.

The Phantom of the Operetta (1960)
The Phantom of the Operetta (1960)
Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms wearing the Claude Rains 1943 Phantom of the Opera costume.

Before the Buzzards Arrive (2023)
Before the Buzzards Arrive (2023)
Tuza, a harsh and authoritarian fisherwoman, causes Justino's death, forcing her to embark on a journey of redemption with his widow, Luvina. Through Juan Rulfo's narrative environment, both women embark on a mysterious journey where their desires face loneliness.
Marina, del otro lado del tiempo (2000)
Marina, del otro lado del tiempo (2000)

Los líos de Barba Azul (1955)
Los líos de Barba Azul (1955)
A news reporter falls in love with a millionaire's young daughter, but her father tells him he won't let them marry unless he earns one million Pesos first. Helped by a friend, he tries to earn the money by marrying - and murdering - four rich women.

Holy Pafnucio (1977)
Holy Pafnucio (1977)
Controversial, sexy and surreal tale of a messenger, his journey and encounters with many historical events and people such as Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortés and Emiliano Zapata (as a beautiful woman!)