El Mariachi

1993 • 1h 21m •

Action Crime Thriller Western

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★ 6.7/10

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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.

"With a guitar in his hand and a price on his head, he wasn't looking for trouble. But trouble came looking for him."

Top Billed Cast

Carlos Gallardo

El Mariachi

Consuelo Gómez

Domino

Jaime de Hoyos

Bigotón

Peter Marquardt

Mauricio

Reinol Martinez

Azul

Ramiro Gómez

Cantinero

Jesús López

Viejo Clerk

Luis Baró

Domino's Assistant

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I insidemovies84 Verified TMDB Critic

2021-02-16

Filmed in 1992 and being Robert Rodriquez’s film debut this is a film about a guitar player whom walk into town at the same time a gangster shoots up some dudes in a bar wearing same clothes so at first it’s a case of Mistaken identity but then I believe the Mariachi guy just kind of falls into the role of the renegade assassin that takes out the man running the streets or so he thinks... falling in love with the bosses girl...
I thought this film was poetic, romantic and tragic all at the same time... I got a kick out of a scene where the dude’s in Domino’s tub as she holds a gun on ...

B badelf Verified TMDB Critic

2026-02-01

El Mariachi (1992)

Directed by Robert Rodriguez

There's a romantic notion in cinema that constraints breed creativity, that necessity mothers invention, that you don't need a Hollywood budget to tell a compelling story. Most of the time, this is wishful thinking offered by people who've never tried to shoot a feature film with pocket change and borrowed equipment. Then there's El Mariachi, Robert Rodriguez's legendary debut, made for approximately seven thousand dollars, which proves that sometimes the romantic notion is absolutely true.

The premise is elegantly simple: a wandering ma...