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Alejandra Márquez Abella

Alejandra Márquez Abella

Director, writer and producer · Born April 30, 1982 (44) · San Luis Potosí, Mexico

Berlinale award nominee

Born in San Luis Potosí, Mexico in 1982, she studied filmmaking at the Centre d’Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya in Barcelona. Her debut feature film, Semana Santa, and her second film, The Good Girls, both premiered at Toronto, the latter going on to screen at several festivals around the world and being nominated for 14 Mexican Academy of Film Awards. She has been working for television for more than a decade, including directing two episodes of the Narcos: Mexico series. El norte sobre el vacío is her third feature-length film.

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Biography from TMDB.

Born
April 30, 1982 (44)
From
San Luis Potosí, Mexico
Works as
Director, writer and producer
Titles
6 on MovieCove · 9 credits in all

What are Alejandra Márquez Abella's films like?

Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Bonds.

What they feel like to watch

their average across 3 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category

Grounded 1 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 1

Gentle 0 · Charged 2 · Intense 1

Steady 2 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0

Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0

Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0

Casual 1 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 0

Easy watch 0 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 2

Resolved 1 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 0

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense
4
Melancholic
3
Contemplative
3
Hopeful
1
Triumphant
1
Other
1

How their films end

  • Bittersweet2
  • Ambiguous3

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Alejandra Márquez Abella's films?

As of October 24, 2026, all 6 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Prime Video (3).

Subscription and free streaming for Alejandra Márquez Abella's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

9 credits, 6 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.

  • The Liberation(2025)

    Show 7 episodes · Director · Creator · Executive Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 2nd percentile of all shows
  • Sierra Madre: No Trespassing(2023)

    Show 2 episodes · Director

    Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all shows
  • A Million Miles Away(2023)

    Director · Screenplay

    Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
  • Northern Skies Over Empty Space(2022)

    Director · Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films
  • The Good Girls(2018)

    Director · Writer

    Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
  • Narcos: Mexico(2018)

    Show 2 episodes · Director

    Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all shows
  • Semana Santa (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Director · Screenplay

  • Mal de tierra (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)

    Director

  • Untitled Mennonite Crime Thriller (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Director · Writer

Career shape

A full career of 9 titles, 8 of them dated from 2011 to 2025.

By role

only this rolewith another role
Directing8 of 9: 3 only directing, 5 with another role · typical Midcredits score76thWriting5 of 9: 0 only writing, 5 with another roleProducing1 of 9: 0 only producing, 1 with another roleOther crew1 of 9: 0 only other crew, 1 with another role

9 titles, 6 with more than one role — directing and writing overlap on 5 of them.

By decade

2010s4 · crew2020s4 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.

Awards

Nominated for a Berlinale award in 2022, Feature Film.

Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.

How do Alejandra Márquez Abella's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 76th percentile, the median of all 3; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 75th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

75thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 3

Approval · how many liked their films

74thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 3

Reach · how many have seen their films

64thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 3

Midcredits score across 6 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up3
  • 50th to 74th1
  • Below 25th2

Reviewers score the atmosphere 65/100 and the pacing 40/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Who does Alejandra Márquez Abella work with?

People who share at least 2 of Alejandra Márquez Abella's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Gabriel Nuncio shares the most, 3.

Directors

Actors

Composers, cinematographers and editors

Producers

Mixed roles