Return to Aztlán (In Necuepaliztli in Aztlan, original title in Náhuatl) is a Mexican fiction film directed by Juan Mora Catlett starring Rodrigo Puebla, Rafael Cortés, Amado Zumaya, Socorro Avelar, made in 1990.

Advised by his priests headed by Tlacaelel, the ruler accepts going to search the goddess Coatlicue, aiming to ask her help to avoid a catastrophe.

[2] Screenplay was written by Juan Mora Cattlet totally in náhuatl advised by archaeologists and anthropologists, thanks to several scholarships of Foundation John S. Guggenheim, UNAM, INAH, ISSSTE and other official grants after an investigation of five years.

The great success of his work was to decant, with the help of Gabriel Pascal, a plastic discourse that uses codex to design a makeup rather than costumes, providing to actors a powerful aesthetic mediumIn Mexico it was an "unusual" blockbuster collecting 200 million pesos of that time and was six and a half weeks in billboard despite being not a commercial movie.

Carro also praised for achieving its own aesthetic, having avoided depictions of foreign cinema and those in the Maya codices, although he criticized that at certain times the plot seemed incomprehensible to “inexperienced viewers”.