Coco (2017)

In Santa Cecilia, Mexico, Miguel dreams of becoming a musician, even though his family strictly forbids it. His great-great-grandmother named Imelda was married to a man who left her and their daughter named Coco to pursue a career in music, and when he never returned, Imelda banished music from her family’s life before starting a shoemaking business. Miguel now lives with the elderly Coco and their family, including Miguel’s parents and his abuelita, who are all shoemakers. He idolizes Ernesto de la Cruz, and secretly teaches himself to play guitar from Ernesto’s old films. On the Day of the Dead, Miguel accidentally damages the picture frame that holds a photo of Coco with her mother on the family ofrenda, discovering that a hidden section of the photograph shows his great-great-grandfather holding Ernesto’s famous guitar. Concluding that Ernesto is his great-great-grandfather, Miguel ignores his family’s objections, so he leaves to enter a talent show for Day of the Dead.

Breaking into Ernesto’s mausoleum, Miguel takes his guitar to use in the show, but once he strums it, he becomes invisible to everyone in the village plaza. However, he can interact with his skeletal dead relatives, who are visiting from the Land of the Dead for the holiday. Taking him back with them, they learn that Imelda cannot visit, since Miguel accidentally removed her photo from the ofrenda. Miguel discovers that he is cursed for stealing from the dead, and must return to the Land of the Living before sunrise, or he will become one of the dead; to do so, he must receive a blessing from a member of his family.