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Stories Set in Mexico City
One of the world's largest cities is literally sinking: Mexico City's colonial center drops inches every year into the drained lakebed below. That unstable ground breeds extremes, from art-house masterpieces to horror franchises. Roma and Amores Perros show the art; Saw X shows the other end. Open Mexico City on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open Mexico City on the StoryTerra map10 famous stories set in Mexico City
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Browse 27 books, 144 movies, 25 TV shows and 6 games set in Mexico City.

Saw X
Between the events of 'Saw' and 'Saw II' a sick and desperate John Kramer travels to Mexico for a risky and experimental medical procedure in hopes of a miracle cure for his cancer only to discover the entire operation…

Man on Fire
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first but eventually bond and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop…

Roma
In 1970s Mexico City two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.

Amores Perros
A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law and a homeless man. Their lives are catapulted into…

Spectre
A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible…

Tod@s Caen
A pair of seducers try to prove who has the best techniques while trying not to fall in love with each other.

Control Z
When a hacker begins releasing students' secrets to the entire high school, the socially isolated but observant Sofía works to uncover his/her identity.

We Are the Nobles
Tells the "riches to rags" story of the Nobles three upper-class twenty-somethings that appear to have no limits to their checkbooks and no direction in their lives. Until one day their father tries to teach them a…

Veinteañera, Divorciada y Fantástica
Regina our young protagonist always dreamed of getting married. And she did it - but the dream lasted much less than she thought and now she has to face life in a very funny way as a divorcee.

The Young and the Damned
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent criminal life in the festering slums of Mexico City among them the young Pedro whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
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