

El Mariachi
With a guitar in his hand and a price on his head, he wasn't looking for trouble. But trouble came looking for him.
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $7.2K
- Box office
- $2M
- Language
- English
- mistaken identity
- usa–mexico border
- mariachi
- concealed weapon
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereTelluride Film Festival4 Sept 1992
- TheatricalR26 Feb 1993
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1520 Aug 1993
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM22 Feb 1993
CanadaCA
- PremiereToronto International Film Festival15 Sept 1992
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1426 Feb 1993
CzechiaCZ
- Physical18+1 Apr 1996
FranceFR
- TheatricalU28 Sept 1993
GermanyDE
- Theatrical185 Aug 1993
ItalyIT
- Theatrical14+3 Sept 1993
JapanJP
- TheatricalR18+28 Sept 1993
MexicoMX
- Theatrical (limited)C22 Feb 1993
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical1624 Feb 1994
- TV16Nederland 112 Oct 2002
- Physical16DVD25 Mar 2008
- Physical16Blu ray6 Apr 2011
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El Mariachi was released on 22 February 1993.
Audience reviews
2- I10/10
insidemovies84
2/16/2021
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 bos…
- B9/10
badelf
2/1/2026
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 le…
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