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Amores perros is a 2000 Mexican film, directed by . Amores Perros is the first movie in Iñárritu's trilogy of death, and was followed by and . It is a ; an , sometimes referred to as the "Mexican ", containing three distinct stories which are connected by a car accident in . Each of the three tales is also a reflection on the cruelty of humans toward animals and each other, showing how they may live dark or even hideous lives. Amores Perros was nominated for the in 2000 and won the from the . But the film's theme is loyalty, as symbolized by the dog, "man's best friend". Dogs are important to the main characters in each of the three stories, and in each story various forms of human loyalty or disloyalty are shown; disloyalty to a brother by trying to seduce the brother's wife, disloyalty to a wife by keeping a mistress with subsequent disloyalty to the mistress when she is injured and loses her beauty, loss of loyalty to youthful idealism and rediscovered loyalty to a daughter as a hit-man falls from and then attempts to regain grace.

The film was released under its Spanish title in the , although its title was sometimes translated as Love's a Bitch in marketing. The soundtrack included songs by well-known Latin American rock bands, such as , , and .