Yu-Mex

You've heard of Tex-Mex, but probably never Yu-Mex. In 1948, when Tito broke with Stalin, he had to find films other than Soviet films. The obvious solution? Mexican films!!!! What?!? That's right, Tito started showing Mexican films in lieu of Soviet films and they became wildly popular in Yugoslavia. According to the website,

Emilio Fernández's Un Día de vida (1950) became so immensely popular that the old people in the former republics of Yugoslavia even today regard it as surely one of the most well known films in the world ever made although in truth it is probably unknown in every other country, even Mexican web pages don't mention it much. The Mexican influence spread to all of the popular culture: fake Mexican bands were forming and their records still can be found at the flea markets nowadays.