Mexico Collection

The Mexico Trilogy (also known as the Desperado Trilogy on some released DVD products) is a series of films: El Mariachi, Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico, all written, produced and directed by Robert Rodriguez, beginning in 1992 and ending in 2003 and distributed by Columbia Tristar which tell the continuing story of the movies' main character, "El Mariachi".

3 movies 1992 – 2003 4h 47m total 123 snapshots 13883 solvers

Action Crime Thriller Western

Directed by Robert Rodriguez

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Movies in this collection

El mariachi

1992 1h 21m Dir. Robert Rodriguez

Thriller Action Crime Western

El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor...a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case.

El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor...a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. The drug lord and his henchmen mistake El Mariachi for the killer, Azul, and chase him around town trying to kill him and get his guitar case.

Desperado

1995 1h 44m Dir. Robert Rodriguez

Thriller Action Crime

We pick up the story as a continuation of "El Mariachi," where an itinerant musician, looking for work, gets mistaken for a hitman and thereby entangled in a web of love, corruption, and death. This time, he is out to avenge the murder of his lover and the maiming of his fretting hand, which occurred at the end of the earlier movie.