Movies Shot in San Miguel de Allende

LOST and FOUND in MEXICO
Why would anyone who is living "the American dream" drop it all and move to Mexico? This is exactly what happened to psychotherapist Caren Cross after she and her husband went on a one-week vacation to San Miguel de Allende.

Confused by her impulsive decision and overwhelmed by the changes she felt, Cross decided to make a documentary film in which she explores the lives of Americans who
chose to leave their hard-working, successful and fast-paced lives to
live in a small Mexican town where leisurely conversations take place in the main square, burros walk the streets and people find their hearts engaged in living once again.

LOST and FOUND in MEXICO is currently making the rounds of over 20
film festivals and has won numerous awards, including "Best
Documentary" in the Boston Film Festival. DVD available at www.lostandfoundinmexico.com

And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003) (TV)
 
Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa (Antonio Banderas) finds himself without adequate funding to finance his war against the military-run governemnt. He also finds himself at odds with the Americans because of the Hurst media empire's press campaign against him. To counter both of these, he sends emissaries to movie producers to convince them to pay to film his progress and the actual battles. Producer D.W. Griffith (Colm Feore) becomes interested and sends Frank Thayer (Eion Bailey) with a film crew to develop film reels. Thayer becomes horrified and fascinated by the bandit. He finds an enigmatic individual that is both ghoulishly brutal and charmingly captivating. The resulting film became the first feature length movie, introducing scores of Americans to the true horrors of war that they had never personally seen. Thayer sold the studios on making the film despite their concerns that no one would sit through a movie longer than 1 hour by convincing them that they could raise the price of movies to ten cents, doubling the going price at that time.


Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)

The film is based on the story of a drug lord Barrillo, who pretends to overthrow the Mexican president. Within the drama, another of the principal persons is a corrupt CIA agent Sands who at that time, demands retribution from his worst enemy in order to carry out the drug lord's uprising against the government. Mariachi is recruited by Sands to take out Gen. Marquez (has a huge score to settle with the Mariachi), who has major beef with Mariachi to begin with. He sends Cucuy (the muscle for Sands) to shadow and keep tabs on the Mariachi. Marquez is working with Barrillo, and is about to assassinate El Presidente and assume power. Sands also convinces Jorge Ramirez (retired-FBI, has old scores to settle with Barrillo) to come out of retirement and take out Barrillo and Dr. Guevera (personal Dr. to Barrillo, killed Jorge's partner a long time ago), who brutally tortured and killed Ramirez' FBI partner.