Cinematography: Ernesto Pardo

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Ernesto Pardo. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


The Tiniest Place

2011 · Documentary · 104 min. · Mexico

Direction Tatiana Huezo

7.5

67 votes

7.5

67 votes

Tempestad

2016 · Documentary · 105 min. · Mexico

Direction Tatiana Huezo

Cast Miriam Carbajal · Adela Alvarado

Plot A woman is recruited to a prison controlled by organized crime while another woman searches for her missing daughter. Through images that submerges us in a journey from north to...

7.4

165 votes

7.4

165 votes

The Echo

2023 · Documentary · 102 min. · Mexico

Direction Tatiana Huezo

Cast Montserrat Hernández Hernández · Luz María Vázquez González · Sarahí Rojas Hernández · María de los Ángeles Pacheco Tapia

Plot In a remote and solitary valley of Mexico, punished by winter and drought, the children learn to gaze upon death, illness and love. A story about feeling vertigo in the...

7.0

255 votes

7.0

255 votes

The Naked Room

2013 · Documentary · 67 min. · Mexico

Direction Nuria Ibañez

Plot Is harsh and direct a film that offers a vision of a world without leaving a single space: the room where consultation takes place in a children´s hospital in Mexico...

6.8

24 votes

6.8

24 votes

Vivos

2020 · Documentary · 112 min. · Germany

Direction Ai Weiwei

Plot Since an attack on students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College in 2014 resulted in six deaths and in the forced disappearance of 43, the students' families have been living...

6.5

71 votes

6.5

71 votes

Agave: Spirit of a Nation

2018 · Documentary · 79 min. · United States

Direction Nick Kovacic · Matthew Riggieri

Cast Damián Alcázar

Plot In Mexico, families have passed down the tradition of distilling agave for generations. Discover how this delicate plant has carried the weight of a nation and the people trying to...

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Why Kill Them? (S)

2018 · Documentary · 13 min. · Mexico

Direction Ludovic Bonleux

Plot 50 years later, a former soldier returns to Tlatelolco, where he participated in the massacre of dozens of students.

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The White Guard

2023 · Documentary · 109 min. · Canada

Direction Julien Elie

Plot Mexico, a land in the grip of necropolitics: The film documents the symbiotic relationship between cartel, government and big business which is claiming the lives of more and more activists.

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Alice Beyond the Abyss

2015 · Documentary · 65 min. · Mexico

Direction Abril Schmucler

Plot Multiforo Alicia is a space that constantly seeks to trigger rebellion, questioning, resistance, reflection and finally generate a self-managed organization for the inhabitants of Mexico City. It is the place...

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Ausencias

2015 · Documentary · 28 min. · Mexico

Direction Tatiana Huezo

Plot Lulú wakes up to an empty house. After 5 years, absence has turned her life into a limbo, but she still has hopes of finding her son and husband alive...

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Rosario

2013 · Documentary · 70 min. · Mexico

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Toshkua

2022 · Documentary · 80 min. · Mexico

Direction Ludovic Bonleux

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Dark Suns

2018 · Documentary · 152 min. · Canada

Direction Julien Elie

Cast Silvia Banda Pedroza · Mario Vergara · Diana Washington-Valdez · Judith Galarza

Plot In Mexico, hundreds of young women have been murdered in recent years. Migrants are kidnapped and enslaved, students are seized and disappear forever, peasant leaders are found dead while journalists...

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The Empty Classroom

2015 · Documentary · 111 min. · Mexico

Direction Flavia Castro · Mariana Chenillo · Pablo Fendrik · Carlos Gaviria

Cast Gael García Bernal · Estefanía Pineres · Alondra Martinez Cuya · Gregoria Martinez Chumpitaz

Plot Ten award-winning directors explore why nearly one out of every two students in Latin America never graduates high school.

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Gods of Mexico

2022 · Documentary · 97 min. · Mexico

Direction Helmut Dosantos

Plot A creative documentary that delves into ways of resistance to modernization in rural Mexico, portraying the great diversity of many communities of Native Peoples and Afro-descendants throughout the country. It...

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Guerrero

2017 · Documentary · 114 min. · Mexico

Direction Ludovic Bonleux

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