La Cabeza de Joaquín Murrieta (Prime Video, 2023) is a visceral Mexican western set amid the brutal realities of California’s 1851 Gold Rush, where greed, racism, and unrest define life in the borderlands. The eight-part series stars Juan Manuel Bernal as the legendary outlaw turned reluctant hero, Joaquín Murrieta, alongside Alejandro Speitzer's Joaquín Carrillo, both battling corruption, injustice, and U.S. Rangers as they navigate a divided frontier.
Produced by Dynamo and Amazon Studios, this series marries the raw stylistic essence of spaghetti westerns with a layered Latin American worldview, tackling themes of identity, dispossession, and belonging through compelling characters and morally charged storytelling.
Upon its global debut, it emerged as one of Prime Video’s most-watched non-English originals—landing at #7 on the platform’s global leaderboards for non-English films and series outside their countries of origin.
The series is co-created and showrun by Mauricio Leiva Cock. David Figueroa García wrote episodes. Associate Produced by Fidelio.