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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.

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10 famous stories set in Mexico City

Live snapshot of the top 10 most popular catalogue items (2026-09-05). Click any card to open this entry on the live map.

Browse 27 books, 144 movies, 25 TV shows and 6 games set in Mexico City.

Saw X

Saw X

Twisted Pictures-Lionsgate
movie

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…

Setting: Mexico City, MexicoTime Period: 2023
Man on Fire

Man on Fire

Regency Enterprises-Fox 2000 Pictures-Epsilon Motion Pictures-Scott Free Productions-New Regency Pictures
movie

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…

Setting: Mexico City, MexicoTime Period: 2000s
Roma

Roma

Participant-Esperanto Filmoj
movie

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

Setting: Mexico City, MexicoTime Period: 1970s
Amores Perros

Amores Perros

Altavista Films-Zeta Film
movie

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…

Setting: Mexico City, MexicoTime Period: 2000
Spectre

Spectre

Columbia Pictures-Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer-Eon Productions
movie

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…

Setting: London, UK; Mexico City, Mexico; Rome, Italy; Austrian Alps; MoroccoTime Period: Contemporary
Tod@s Caen

Tod@s Caen

movie

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

Setting: Mexico City, MexicoTime Period: 2019
Control Z

Control Z

Carlos Quintanilla Sakar,Miguel García Moreno
tvshow

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

Setting: Mexico City, MexicoTime Period: Contemporary 2020s
We Are the Nobles

We Are the Nobles

Alazraki Films
movie

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…

Setting: Mexico City, MexicoTime Period: 2013
Veinteañera, Divorciada y Fantástica

Veinteañera, Divorciada y Fantástica

Different Films-All About Media
movie

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.

Setting: Mexico City, MexicoTime Period: Present Day
The Young and the Damned

The Young and the Damned

Ultramar Films
movie

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.

Setting: Mexico City, MexicoTime Period: 1950s

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