El Búfalo de la Noche (The Night Buffalo) is a 2007 film directed by Jorge Hernández Aldana and based on Guillermo Arriaga's novel of the same name.

The setting is contemporary México, and the characters are college students, struggling to get ahead in a world that is getting more and more alienated, where physical contact fills the gaps in interpersonal communication.

Having gone through a similar ordeal years before with the 1999 movie Un Dulce Olor a Muerte (A Sweet Scent of Death), also based on one of his novels and directed by Gabriel Retes.

He admittedly looked for a novice director to get a fresh outlook and finally settled for Jorge Hernández, whom he had awarded as a member of a jury of a Venezuelan short film contest.

Portions of the soundtrack were used jointly in The Mars Volta's 2006 album Amputechture, while Rodríguez-López released Se Dice Bisonte, No Búfalo as "a response and expression of his feelings of the film.