Macario (1960)

Macario (1960) is the most formally accomplished film of the Mexican Golden Age, outperforming #1 on this list in formal composition. Roberto Gavaldón's black-and-white fantasy about a poor woodcutter who makes a pact with Death to share a roasted turkey was Mexico's first Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. Its portrayal of Día de los Muertos ritual and moral allegory of greed directly influenced Pixar's Coco half a century later, and it boasts a 95% rating on specialized film review sites, a full 5% higher than the average for Mexican Golden Age films.