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Cinematographic super-productions in natural scenarios in Mexico! Some of the most beautiful places in Mexico have been chosen by internationally well-known directors to give atmosphere to some of their box-office hits.

Thanks to its infinite natural landscapes, some of the best filmmakers in the world have chosen Mexico to be the scenario in which they have made some of the most famous movies of the recent years.

During many years some of the desert areas of Durango served as the ideal space to give atmosphere to the popular western movies where the "Indians" and "Cowboys" recreated the good old "Wild west". In the meanwhile Puerto Vallarta in Jalisco was one of the first places in Mexico to obtain international fame thanks to a movie for it was there where "The Night of the Iguana" was filmed in 1964; a movie starred in by Ava Gardner and Richard Burton. During the past 30 years the North American film industry has increased the number of locations in Mexico by filming in the forest of Catemaco (Veracruz) movies like "Medicine Man" (filmed in 1992 and starred in by Sean Connery) or "Apocalypto", the most recent one by Mel Gibson. The desert-like atmosphere of Real de Catorce (San Luis Potosí) was chosen to be the scenario for the accidental romance between Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts in "The Mexican" (2000) and in the beaches of Manzanillo (Colima) Bo Derek converted into the perfect woman in the movie "10" (1979). In Rosarito (Baja California) James Cameron found a perfect place to put on film the disastrous journey of "Titanic" (1997) and in the same state, in Cabo San Lucas the German director Wolfgang Petersen recreated the Ancient Greece of "Troya" (2004) to revive the battles of Achilles, interpreted by Bratt Pitt.