Miss Bala

You're a beauty pageant hopeful practicing your walk in a Tijuana hall with sequins catching the fluorescent light and then gunfire erupts at a nightclub across town. Your cab driver vanishes mid-ride and you wake up in a military compound with a sniper rifle beside your dress. The camera never flinches but the anthem playing in the final frame is the one you hummed during preliminaries.

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Gerardo Naranjo directed Miss Bala in 2011. See Gerardo Naranjo's full filmography, where to start with Gerardo Naranjo, or where to go after you've seen everything by Gerardo Naranjo.

Miss Bala was released in 2011 (ES original-language production), with a runtime of 113 minutes.