Sonora: The Devil’s Highway

2019 · 95 min · ES · 6.1 (27 votes)

Dir. Alejandro Springall · Starring Joaquín Cosío, Giovanna Zacarías, Dolores Heredia, Harold Torres, Juan Manuel Bernal, Erando González

DramaThrillerWestern

1931, a year of nationalisms and excesses: The Chinese are expelled from Sonora; the US deports Mexicans and closes its borders. Twelve desperate people cross the Sonoran desert in a 1929 Chrysler, hoping to find peace in Baja California. As their sojourn exposes both the best and the worst of human nature, racism, greed, and paranoia prove as deadly as the merciless landscape around them.

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A relentless, sun-baked journey through a hostile landscape, where human cruelty mirrors the desert's unforgiving nature. It's a tense, desperate odyssey, steeped in historical anxieties, exploring the darkest corners of survival and prejudice. The atmosphere is thick with dread and the struggle for dignity.

dread-soakedtensebleakdesperategrittypropulsiveneo-westerngritty realismperiod dramastark cinematographyxenophobiasurvivalhuman naturemigrationdesperation