From 1990s to the present it is considered as the era of the Nuevo Cine Mexicano (New Mexican Cinema). It first took place with high quality films by Arturo Ripstein

Arturo Ripstein

Arturo Ripstein y Rosen is a Mexican film director.-Life and career:Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir...

, Alfonso Arau

Alfonso Arau

-Biography:Arau was born in Mexico City, the son of a doctor. He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate , A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the...

, Alfonso Cuarón

Alfonso Cuarón

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Y tu mamá también, and A Little Princess.- Early life :...

 and María Novaro. The most famous films produced at this time were Como agua para chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) (1992), La Otra Conquista (The Other Conquest) (1999), and Sexo, pudor y lágrimas

Sexo, pudor y lágrimas

Sexo, pudor y lágrimas is a Mexican film, the second of the so-called New Era of the Cinema of Mexico . It was the first film directed by Antonio Serrano....

(Sex, Shame, and Tears) (1999). The latest famous examples are Amores perros

Amores perros

Amores perros is a 2000 neorealist Mexican film, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Amores Perros is the first movie in Iñárritu's trilogy of death, and was followed by 21 Grams and Babel. It is a triptych; an anthology film, sometimes referred to as the "Mexican Pulp Fiction," containing...

by Alejandro González Iñárritu

Alejandro González Iñárritu

Alejandro González Iñárritu is a Mexican film director.González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the DGA of America for Best Director. He is also the first and only Mexican born director to have won the Prix de la mise en scene...

, Y tu mamá también

Y tu mamá también

Y tu mamá también is a 2001 Mexican comedy-drama film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, and co-written by Cuarón and his brother Carlos. The film is a coming-of-age story about two teenage boys taking a road trip with a woman in her late twenties; it stars Mexican actors Diego Luna and Gael García...

by Alfonso Cuarón

Alfonso Cuarón

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Y tu mamá también, and A Little Princess.- Early life :...

, El crimen del Padre Amaro

El crimen del Padre Amaro

El crimen del padre Amaro is a 2002 film directed by Carlos Carrera. It is loosely based on the novel O Crime do Padre Amaro by 19th-century Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queiroz....

by Carlos Carrera

Carlos Carrera

Carlos Carrera is a Mexican film director and screenwriter. He directed El crimen del Padre Amaro , which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film....

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European influence

In recent years, particularly since 2000, some directors have made "independent productions looking for more personal expression, under a greater influence of European cinema. The most representative films of this trend are Japón

Japón (film)

Japón is the 2002 debut film of the Mexican director Carlos Reygadas.- Plot :The film follows a man going through an acute existential crisis. He leaves Mexico City to go to camp and prepare for his death, staying with an old Indian widow in her ramshackle home overlooking a desolate canyon...

and Batalla en el cielo

Batalla en el cielo

Battle in Heaven is a 2005 Mexican-French-German film. It is the second film by director Carlos Reygadas who previously directed the Mexican film Japón. It was entered into the 2005 Cannes Film Festival...

(Battle in heaven), both directed by Carlos Reygadas

Carlos Reygadas

Carlos Reygadas is a Mexican filmmaker known for his three films Batalla en el Cielo, Japón and Silent Light . After Batalla en el Cielo, he was known for his raw depiction of sex in his films and the use of old or ugly-seeming characters...

. Other films include Mil nubes de paz cercan el cielo, amor, jamás acabrás de ser amor (A Thousand Clouds of Peace Fence the Sky, Love; Your Being Love Will Never End) and El cielo dividido

Broken Sky (film)

Broken Sky is a 2006 Mexican drama film involving a love triangle between three young gay men. The film was directed and written by Julián Hernández.-Cast:*Miguel Ángel Hoppe - Gerardo...

(Broken Sky), directed by Julián Hernández, and Sangre

Sangre (film)

Sangre is a 2005 Mexican drama film directed by Amat Escalante. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Cirilo Recio Dávila - Diego* Claudia Orozco - Karina* Martha Preciado - Martita...

, directed by Amat Escalante

Amat Escalante

Amat Escalante is a Mexican director, producer and screenwriter known for his films Sangre and Los Bastardos.- Biography :...

and produced by Jaime Romandía and Reygadas.