Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015) on Netflix

Plot summary

Freshly rejected by Hollywood and riding the success of Battleship Potemkin, the Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein comes to Guanajuato, Mexico, in 1931 to shoot a new film. Palomino Cañedo, his guide, chaperones him through the visit. Mexico takes hold of Eisenstein, the fears he had suppressed surface, and sensual pleasures and new possibilities open to him, ones that will shape his art.