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77
7.8
/509904/
78
/12898/
75
/6361/
4.0
/514429/
74
/169/
89
/11259/
71
/36/
cc age 17+

Training Day (2001)
On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
7.3
/25644/
74
/1740/
76
/498/
3.5
/20250/
89
/54/
94
/147/
62
/10/
cc age 10+

A Million Miles Away (2023)
The life of engineer and former NASA astronaut José M. Hernández, the first migrant farmworker to go to space.
poster
75
7.3
/23608/
75
/698/
76
/422/
3.5
/28036/
89
/63/
79
/720/
77
/11/
cc age 13+

Stand and Deliver (1988)
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.
poster
75
7.1
/11353/
76
/530/
74
/384/
3.5
/7453/
73
/11/
90
/450/
66
/11/
cc age 17+

American Me (1992)
During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana goes back to his old neighborhood, intending to lead a peaceful, crime-free life. But his old gang buddies force him back into his old habits.
poster
Netflix
73
6.7
/8070/
72
/723/
70
/80/
3.1
/17688/
82
/33/
97
/87/
65
/5/
cc age 10+

The Long Game (2024)
In a segregated Texas, five Mexican-American teenage caddies were prohibited from playing at the country club where they worked. Against all odds, they formed their own team, built a one-hole course in the fields, and won the 1957 Texas State championship. Based on a true story.
poster
73
7.0
/38937/
73
/1296/
72
/756/
3.6
/40177/
83
/80/
79
/1242/
65
/12/
cc age 14+

La Bamba (1987)
Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called "Donna" that he wrote for his girlfriend. But as his star rises, Valens has conflicts with his jealous brother, Bob, and becomes haunted by a recurring nightmare of a plane crash just as he begins his first national tour alongside Buddy Holly.
poster
72
6.5
/2607/
70
/61/
66
/35/
3.6
/3852/
73
/22/
87
/165/

Mi Vida Loca (1994)
Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two become bitter enemies. While their dispute escalates towards violence, the violence of the world around them soon also impacts their lives.
poster
72
7.9
/37176/
81
/920/
81
/1470/
4.0
/22667/
64
/14/
94
/1855/
47
/12/

Bound by Honor (1993)
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.
poster
71
6.5
/901/
73
/54/
71
/61/
3.4
/901/
88
/7/

Boulevard Nights (1979)
Raymond Avila is an ex-gang member trying to build a future. His kid brother Chuco is a sullen low-rider still caught up in the life. Despite their differences, their family bond is strong. But that bond is violently tested when rivals challenge Chuco's gang and ignite a neighborhood war.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
74
71
7.1
/4796/
73
/230/
67
/75/
3.2
/3013/
95
/20/
83
/115/
70
/6/

East Side Sushi (2014)
Years of working in the food industry have made Juana, a working-class Latina, a chef of speed and skill. Searching for financial stability, she stumbles into a high-energy, male-dominated Japanese cuisine kitchen. The new atmosphere re-ignites her passions for food and life and makes her hungry to get mixed up in the flavors of this new world.
poster
Kanopy
69
6.7
/32540/
71
/886/
65
/512/
3.3
/17189/
75
/40/
71
/549/
66
/15/

Colors (1988)
A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
68
5.9
/114645/
63
/9249/
66
/2989/
2.9
/347267/
78
/279/
90
/1408/
61
/52/
cc age 12+

Blue Beetle (2023)
Recent college grad Jaime Reyes returns home full of aspirations for his future, only to find that home is not quite as he left it. As he searches to find his purpose in the world, fate intervenes when Jaime unexpectedly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic of alien biotechnology: the Scarab.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
67
6.8
/20738/
71
/1529/
79
/783/
2.9
/60230/
67
/128/
87
/242/
58
/31/
cc age 13+

Flamin' Hot (2023)
The inspiring true story of Richard Montañez, the Frito Lay janitor who channeled his Mexican American heritage and upbringing to turn the iconic Flamin' Hot Cheetos into a snack that disrupted the food industry and became a global pop culture phenomenon.
poster
66
6.8
/7305/
70
/115/
65
/89/
3.4
/2536/
61
/33/
74
/124/

The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
The accidental breakdown of an irrigation valve launches a hot confrontation between the mainly Latino farmers in a tiny New Mexico town and the real estate developers and politicians determined to acquire their land for a golf resort.
poster
Starz
76
65
7.2
/3308/
71
/258/
75
/51/
3.2
/28376/
88
/51/
95
/17/
69
/6/
cc age 13+

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2023)
Two teenage Mexican-American loners in 1987 El Paso explore a new, unusual friendship and the difficult road to self-discovery.
poster
56
6.2
/47019/
68
/2055/
64
/624/
3.0
/33472/
22
/64/
76
/3019/
41
/25/
cc age 18+

Next Friday (2000)
A streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner uncle and cousin to avoid a neighborhood thug with a grudge who has just escaped from prison. But trouble soon follows and the suburbs will never be the same.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
65
56
6.7
/5066/
68
/121/
62
/84/
3.2
/1926/
67
/1447/

Valdez Is Coming (1971)
Old Mexican-American sheriff Bob Valdez has always been a haven of sanity in a land of madmen when it came to defending law and order. But the weapon smuggler Frank Tanner is greedy and impulsive. When Tanner provokes a shooting that causes the death of an innocent man and Valdez asks him to financially compensate the widow, Tanner refuses to do so and severely humiliates Valdez, who will do justice and avenge his honor, no matter what it takes.
poster
65
45
6.7
/1504/
64
/40/
63
/21/
3.5
/2457/
55
/11/
75
/57/

Zoot Suit (1981)
Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 1940s Los Angeles. Henry Reyna is the leader of a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to San Quentin without substantial evidence for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. As part of the defense committee, Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant miscarriage of justice for the freedom of Henry and his friends.
poster
63
35
6.6
/2097/
64
/19/
59
/27/
3.1
/589/
89
/9/
41
/10/

Bordertown (1935)
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.
poster
Peacock Premium
41
21
3.7
/881/
53
/119/
56
/21/
1.8
/1274/
26
/28/
cc age 13+

How the Gringo Stole Christmas (2023)
Bennie's daughter is on her way home for the holidays. However she surprises him by arriving with her brand new boyfriend - an uninvited gringo.
poster
69
20
6.9
/1365/
56
/14/
68
/16/
3.4
/451/
84
/8/

Trial (1955)
A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems facing the USA such as stormy race relations and the growing threat of local communism.
poster
?
8.8
/42/
80
/2/

Canta Santiago (2024)
A young mariachi faces his first performance alone but discovers his brother has always been by his side.
poster
Kanopy
?
7.5
/25/
10
/1/

Home + Away (2018)
This coming-of-age story follows three students of El Paso's Bowie High and their search for the American dream, a dream inspired by family, fueled by sports, and complicated by the US/Mexican border.
poster
?
7.6
/8/

The Lemon Grove Incident (1985)
On Jan. 5, 1931, Mexican-American students were barred from attending their local elementary school. The parents took the school district to court.
poster
Netflix
73
?
7.5
/217/
70
/15/
3.7
/1211/

Going Varsity in Mariachi (2023)
A year in the life of an underdog competitive high school mariachi band in the Texas borderlands.
poster
?
40
/2/

Así en la tierra como en el cielo (2022)
Following the death of a close uncle, siblings Guillermo, Lucia, and Nora are forced to interact with each other and their extended family during the customary nine days of a Novenario.
poster
Kanopy
?
7.5
/10/
70
/1/

Las Marthas (2014)
Marthas is a PBS documentary about an extraordinary rite of passage in Laredo, Texas where teenage Mexican-American girls debut in a grand Colonial Ball dressed as American revolutionaries - a tradition that goes back 114 years.
poster
?
20
/1/

The Color of Fear 2: Walking Each Other Home (1997)
In THE COLOR OF FEAR, eight American men participated in emotionally charged discussions of racism. In this sequel, we hear and see more from those discussions, in which the men talk about about how racism has affected their lives in the United States. We also learn more about the relationships between them, and about their reactions during some of the most intense moments of that discussion.
poster
56
?
6.3
/169/
55
/10/
50
/6/

I Am Joaquin (1969)
Experimental film woven around a poem about Chicano culture in the U.S. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.
poster
Kanopy
?
8.1
/18/

Foreign Puzzle (2019)
Foreign Puzzle is an intimate documentary that captures the journey of an inspiring Mexican American dancer as she communicates the impermanence of life through dance while juggling the roles of a recently divorced parent of a 6-year-old, a choreographer and a primary school teacher amidst intensive treatments for breast cancer.
poster
?
60
/1/

Assimilation Memories (2020)
90's era home videos of a Mexican father starting a new life in the United States
poster
?
8.6
/12/
70
/1/
50
/1/

Duke of Earl (1979)
Violence erupts when two vicious street gangs go to war in the inner city. Duke, the gang leader of Tokers Town, is feeling the pressure from his Barrio to go to war with their rival gang 14th St. But while Duke was in jail he made a peace treaty with the leader of 14th St. only to discover they had broken it. Now with his homies getting shot and his mothers pleas to stop the violence he is at the breaking point.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
46
?
4.0
/244/
47
/4/
35
/2/
62
/3/

Vatos Locos (2011)
Two Chicano brothers, Estaban and Raul grow up hard on the streets of Los Angeles. Their papa gets executed for a drug deal gone bad when only seven years old. Half Irish, half Mexican gangster named Mickey Solis takes the two boys in and brings them up as lieutenants in his family business.
poster
58
?
6.4
/502/
58
/8/
68
/5/
43
/2/

My Man and I (1952)
In California, a Mexican-American laborer is falsely accused of shooting the racist farmer he was working for after the farmer stiffed him with a bad check.
poster
54
?
6.0
/449/
54
/5/
50
/11/

A Covenant with Death (1967)
An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he accidentally kills his executioner. He now faces a new trial, presided over by a young and inexperienced judge.
poster
Kanopy
50
?
8.0
/18/
20
/1/

Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena (1999)
CORPUS explores the mass adulation and explosive posthumous recognition of Selena Quintanilla, the Tejano rock singer murdered by the president of her fan club in 1995. Pushing beyond the mainstream media's fascination with her violent death, Portillo interviews Selena's family and friends as well as the devoted fans that pilgrimage to Selena's grave in Corpus Christi, Texas, to pay homage to the slain star. Moving and provocative, this humble investigative portrait explores Selena's cultural significance as a pop icon and shines a light on the hopes, fantasies, fears, and realities of young Latinas today.
poster
?
8.2
/54/
60
/1/

Sold (2011)
Told through the eyes of a young journalist named Maya, who has inadvertently gotten captured into a human trafficking ring while doing an investigative article on the treatment of illegal immigrants in America
poster
50
?
4.7
/185/
43
/3/
60
/2/

Gang Boy (1954)
Danny ponders a way for rival gangs to avoid violence at an upcoming dance.
poster
Kanopy
?
8.7
/22/

Stolen Education (2013)
"Stolen Education" documents the untold story of Mexican-American school children who challenged discrimination in Texas schools in the 1950s and changed the face of education in the Southwest.
poster
75
?
8.3
/294/
66
/3/
75
/4/
3.8
/262/

The Color of Fear (1994)
Diversity trainer Lee Mun Wah assembles a diverse group of eight American men to talk about their experience of race relations in the United States. The exchange is sometimes dramatic as they lay bare the pain that racism in the US has caused them.
poster
64
?
5.5
/406/
60
/10/
51
/6/
3.1
/204/
93
/5/

Walk Proud (1979)
A young Chicano gang member in Los Angeles comes to realize that the gang life is not what he really wants but doesn't know how to get out.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
?
5.5
/95/
25
/7/
50
/6/

American Lowrider (2013)
Lefty-a hard working, light hearted man is looking to make a decent buck. But when a simple bet goes horribly wrong, Lefty is stuck between a rock and gangster who's dead set on collecting his money.
poster
fuboTV
?
4.1
/78/
10
/2/
12
/4/

Vatos Locos 2 (2016)
Chicano gangster Micky Solis finds that his family has been slaughtered by the Chinese mob. His whole life force turns to finding the killers. A slick lawyer (Angus MacFadyen) leads Micky to a "nun" (Paz De La Huerta) who shows him who the killers are that took his family from him. Micky unleashes a war of bullets and emotions on the family until each one dies by the same sword they wielded. The only thought on Micky's mind is REVENGE: VENGANZA.
poster
fuboTV
48
?
3.8
/161/
76
/6/
57
/6/
22
/1/

Mexican Gangster (2008)
Johnny Sun is a Mexican American with a white mother and Mexican dad. He witnesses his parents murder and gets his revenge years later, leading to a hard life as a gangster in drugs and smuggling. He tries to keep his borther from the life and finds himself fending for his own life.
poster
?

The Dreamer Cinderella (2025)
This Cinderella story blends the emotional resonance of Under the Same Moon with the transformational charm of My Fair Lady. At its center is Xochitl, a Mexican-American street fruit vendor whose life takes an unexpected turn when a powerful film director makes her the subject of a daring bet with his career rival. Xochitl is thrust into a world she perceives as hostile. What follows is a clash of cultures—paving the way for new friendships, surprising rivalries, and life-altering consequences.
poster
?

Roll Modelz
As forces threaten to divide and silence Latino communities, a lowrider club in rural Washington transforms personal tragedy into a rolling act of resistance.
poster
?

El Colibrí (2024)
A young girl repairs a treasured wooden hummingbird, her late mother's last gift, bringing hope and healing to her grieving father.
poster
?

The Girl and the Zapateado (2025)
During practice, a performer of Mexican folkloric dance delves into her philosophy on a challenge she faces on stage.


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