Nuevo Cine Mexicano

[1] Filmmakers, critics, and scholars consider Nuevo Cine Mexicano a "rebirth" of Mexican cinema because of the production of higher-quality films.

This rebirth led to high international praise as well as box-office success, unseen since the golden age of Mexican cinema of the 1930s to 1960s.

[6] Some cite the actual rejuvenation of Mexican cinema as starting in 1998 in a Post-NAFTA Mexico, beginning with the film Sexo, pudor y lágrimas (Sex, Shame and Tears).

[1] Social divisions within Mexico is a reoccurring theme within Nuevo Cine Mexicano, including the films Y Tu Mamá También, El crimen del Padre Amaro (2002), and Amores Perros.

[6] Other subjects such as homosexuality and political corruption are briefly touched on in Y Tu Mamá También (And Your Mother Too), helping to set up a background of what Mexico is and is not.

[11] Directors specifically adopted this style to move away from the state and into independent productions, which a majority of Nuevo Cine Mexicano is.

[11] The phenomenal growth of 'women's cinema', not only meant that there would be an infinite expansion in the list of female names as filmmakers or creators; in reality, it created a daunting cinematic genre by objectifying women as well as displacing them within the film industry.

Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, and Alejandro G. Inarritu make up the "Three Amigos", the main Mexican film directors of Nuevo Cine Mexicano.

[9] "Poster-boy" actors Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna have also moved on to several Hollywood productions, yet their popularity in Mexican cinema has proven to endure throughout the years.

[9] Other directors include Alonso Ruizpalacios, Fernando Eimbcke, Jonás Cuarón, Issa López and Carlos López Estrada other actors include Eugenio Derbez, Eiza González, Diego Boneta, Tenoch Huerta, Kate del Castillo, Marina de Tavira, Diego Calva, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Omar Chaparro, Ana de la Reguera, José María Yazpik, Martha Higareda, Adriana Paz, Salma Hayek, Marco Perez, Adriana Barraza, Damián Alcázar, Irene Azuela, Luis Gerardo Méndez, Eduardo Verástegui, Karla Souza, Ana Claudia Talancón, Juan Daniel García Treviño, Joaquín Cosío, Alfonso Herrera, Yalitza Aparicio, Ilse Salas, Demian Bichir, Tony Dalton, Cecilia Suárez, Cassandra Ciangherotti and Jaime Camil.

Other films include: Mil nubes de paz cercan el cielo, amor, jamás acabarás de ser amor (A Thousand Clouds of Peace Fence the Sky, Love; Your Being Love Will Never End) and El cielo dividido (Broken Sky), directed by Julián Hernández, and Sangre, directed by Amat Escalante and produced by Jaime Romandía and Reygadas.