Miss Bala (English: "Miss Bullet") is a 2019 action thriller film directed by Catherine Hardwicke and written by Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, based on the 2011 Mexican film of the same name. The film stars Gina Rodriguez, Ismael Cruz Córdova, and Anthony Mackie, and follows a woman who trains to take down a Mexican drug cartel after her friend is kidnapped.

Plot

In Tijuana, makeup artist Gloria Fuentes visits her best friend Suzu Ramós. Gloria and Suzu plan to enter the upcoming "Miss Baja California" beauty pageant, and hope to improve their chances by impressing the influential municipal police chief Rafael Saucedo at a nightclub. While Gloria is in the bathroom, the nightclub is attacked by gunmen and Gloria is separated from Suzu, who disappears in the chaos. Gloria reports Suzu's disappearance to the police and accompanies an officer to search for her, but the officer abandons Gloria in a remote area, where she is kidnapped by Las Estrellas, the cartel behind the nightclub attack.