Mario Zaragoza’s Typical Vibe
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Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Mario Zaragoza has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Cinco de Mayo: The Battle.
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On May 5th, 1862, a few thousand Mexican soldiers put their lives on the line against the world's largest and most powerful army in one legendary battle for freedom and for Mexico.
Dir. Rafael Lara Ruiz · With Christian Vazquez, Liz Gallardo, Angélica Aragón

A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
Dir. Adrian Grünberg · With Mel Gibson, Kevin Hernandez, Daniel Giménez Cacho

In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing each other. She plans to get to the United States and dreams about being a great singer; he commits all the required atrocities to be accepted by the gang: la Mara Salvatrucha. Sabina and Jovany crashed with the most adverse conditions at the border like white slavery, the Mexican and American migratory agents Burrona and Patrick, the brothel matron Doña Lita, Don Nico the Mexican Consul in Tecún Umán, the drug trafficking networks, the army and la Mara Salvatrucha.
Dir. Luis Mandoki · With Greisy Mena, Joaquín Cosío, Fernando Moreno

Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out within the neighborhood's borders.
Dir. Rodrigo Plá · With Daniel Giménez Cacho, Daniel Tovar, Alan Chávez