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Mexican Movies on Blu-Ray

Physical Media is a distant memory to many but an important archival effort for others. Streaming Services have been gaining so much ground in the Home Entertainment market thas is making retailers leave.

The absence of physical media creates a place where these services are the ones to choose what can be shown on their platforms, they have the ability to censor or “update for modern sensibilities” depending on if it would give them more money and fewer problems on Social Media.

Mexico’s film history is admired outside the country and fondly remembered with the Golden Era of Mexican movies sadly there are few physical releases of catalog content, particularly pre-2000s movies. During the heyday of DVDs many companies like Zima dedicated part of their catalog to releasing Mexican movies on DVD, of course, in bad quality and sometimes unrestored.

Nowadays, it seems nobody in the country actually cares about these movies. If they are newly restored they go to American companies to put on Blu-Ray or go directly to platforms like Amazon Prime Video where they get hidden with the amount of content that is weekly added.

This article pretends to list all the Mexican movies on Blu-ray made before the 2000s. To be included in the list they need to be presented in their original Spanish language. Movies like La Mujer Murcielago (The Batwoman) are not included. They must also be in the Blu-Ray Region A.

This list includes links to the official pages or to Bluray.com, from there one can search on Amazon or another store.

List in Chronological Order.


La Llorona (1933) — Indicator

El Fantasma del Convento (1934) — Indicator

Dos Monjes (1934) — Criterion Collection

Redes (1936) — Criterion Collection

La Barraca (1945) — VCI

Una Familia de Tantas (1949) — VCI

El Bruto (1953) — VCI

La Rebelión de los Colgados (1954) — VCI

Ensayo de un Crimen (1955) — VCI

Espaldas Mojadas (1955) — VCI

Ladrones de Cadaveres (1957) — VCI

Misterios de Ultratumba (1959) — Indicator

Santa Claus (1959) — VCI

El Esqueleto de la Señora Morales (1960) — VCI

La Sombra del Caudillo (1960) — VCI

El Ángel Exterminador (1961) — Criterion Collection

Santo Contra Cerebro del Mal (1961) — Indicator

Santo Contra Los Hombres Infernales (1961) — Indicator

El Espejo de la Bruja (1962) — Indicator

El Barón del Terror (1962) — Indicator

La Maldición de la Llorona (1962) — Indicator

El Gangster (1965) — VCI

Simón del Desierto — Criterion Collection

La Soldadera (1966)— VCI

Hasta el Viento Tiene Miedo (1968) — VCI

El Escapulario (1968) — VCI

Fando Y Lis (1968) — ABKCO

Las Olimpiadas en México (1969) — Criterion Collection

El Topo (1970) — ABKCO

La Montaña Sagrada (1973) — ABKCO

Rapiña (1975) — Vinegar Syndrome

Más Negro Que la Noche (1975) — Vinegar Syndrome

Canoa (1976) — Criterion Collection

Víbora Caliente (1978) — Vinegar Syndrome

Verano Salvaje (1980) — Vinegar Syndrome

Johnny Chicago (1981) — Vinegar Syndrome

Cementerio del Terror (1985) — Vinegar Syndrome

Veneno Para las Hadas (1986) — Vinegar Syndrome

Vacaciones de Terror (1988) — Vinegar Syndrome

Violador Infernal (1988) — Vinegar Syndrome

Ladrones de Tumbas (1989) — Vinegar Syndrome

Santa Sangre (1989) — Severin Films

Vacaciones de Terror 2 (1990) — Vinegar Syndrome

Muerte en la Playa (1991) — Vinegar Syndrome

Sólo con tu Pareja (1991) — Criterion Collection

La Rata Maldita (1992) — Vinegar Syndrome

Como Agua Para Chocolate (1992) — Paramount Pictures

Cronos (1993) — Criterion Collection

Amores Perros (2000) — Criterion Collection

This list will be updated.

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