Miss Bala

Gloria Meyer, a makeup artist living in Los Angeles, travels to Tijuana to see her friend Suzu. When Suzu disappears, Gloria's search draws her into the orbit of a local drug cartel. She is forced to work for the organization, and her situation grows more complicated when American law enforcement takes an interest in her and presses her into serving their own aims. Caught between the gang and the authorities pursuing it, she has to rely on abilities she did not know she had in order to survive.

The film is a 2019 action feature directed by Catherine Hardwicke, working from a screenplay by Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer. It is the eighth film she directed, arriving between Miss You Already and Mafia Mamma in her filmography. Gina Rodriguez plays Gloria, with Ismael Cruz Córdova as the cartel boss Lino, Aislinn Derbez as Isabel, Matt Lauria as Brian, Damián Alcázar as Chief Saucedo and Ricardo Abarca as Pollo among a credited cast of 38. Kevin Misher and Pablo Cruz produced the Mexico–United States co-production.

Made for a budget of 15 million USD, the film took in roughly the same amount worldwide, a modest return. Audience response has been middling: it holds a 5.8 rating from around 14,000 votes on IMDb and a 6.3 from roughly 600 votes on TMDB. A critics' rating of 4.6 from 114 reviews places it below the audience scores.