Latin movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant latin movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, touching, emotional and feel good films and TV shows about / with society, love and romance, family relations, love, couples, dancing, male nudity, youth, male female relationship and female nudity plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres shot in USA, France, Brazil and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as latin: The Fish Child (2009), Only God Knows (2006), Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004), City of God (2002), 20 Centimeters (2005), Chico & Rita (2010), One Day at a Time (2017), Straight from the Barrio (2008), The Journey (2007), Tango Shalom (2021).

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The Fish Child (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A desperate love story between two young girls of extremely different social backgrounds who, unable to find a place for their love in the world they live in, are pushed to commit a crime.
Style: captivating, surreal, atmospheric, sincere, serious ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: lesbian, gender, lesbian sex, lesbian teen, legend, murder, lgbt, women in prison, youth, haunted by the past, love affair, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, paraguay, latin america, buenos aires argentina
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 6.6
 858
Only God Knows (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Mexico, Brazil
Duration: 115 min.
Story: On a lark in Tijuana, a carefree Brazilian art student crosses paths with a brooding Mexican journalist, sparking a cascade of events across both Mexico and Brazil. As Dolores and Damián discover an intimate love and a mysterious spiritual ...
Style: semi serious, serious, realistic, humorous, atmospheric ...
Plot: couple relations, self discovery, impossible love, love and romance, journalism, fall in love, religions or cults, estrangement, looking for sex, destiny, love, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, brazil, latin america, san diego california
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Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In pre-revolution Cuba, Katey Miller is about to defy everyone's expectations. Instead of a parent-approved suitor, Katey is drawn to the sexy waiter, Javier, who spends his nights dancing in Havana's nightclubs. As she secretly learns to ...
Style: romantic, light, period piece, touching, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: dancing, dancer's life, young lovers, love story, revolution, love and romance, couples, dance, music, mentor, salsa, hopes ...
Time: 1950s, year 2004, 50s, 20th century
Place: cuba, havana cuba, caribbean, latin america
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 8.6
 796K
City of God (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by ...
Style: disturbing, rough, bleak, hood, stylized ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: gang, coming of age, storytelling, organized crime, society, gang war, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, photographer, journalism, favela, police corruption ...
Time: 2000s, 70s, year 2002, 20th century, year 2003 ...
Place: latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil, south america
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20 Centimeters (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Colloquially-told story of a few days in the life of Marieta, who's saving money for the last operation in her change from man to woman. She works as a prostitute in Madrid and longs for a legitimate job. Whenever she builds up her savings, her ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, erotic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: transsexual, transsexuality, male nudity, gender, male prostitute, dream, lgbt, lifestyle, friends, love and romance, fall in love, sexual relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe, madrid
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 7.2
 10K
Chico & Rita (2010)
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey - in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero - brings heartache and torment.
Style: captivating, serious, stylized, sexual, anime ...
Audience: adult
Plot: jazz, pianist, love affair, lovers apart, music, musician's life, ambition, lifestyle, young lovers, follow your dream, deportation, youth ...
Time: 2010s, 1940s, 20th century, 50s, year 1958 ...
Place: cuba, paris france, usa, las vegas, new york ...
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One Day at a Time (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: In a reimagining of the TV classic, a newly single Latina mother raises her teen daughter and tween son with the "help" of her old-school mom.
Style: sitcom, feel good, captivating, humorous, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lesbian, feminism, lgbt, family drama, single mother, depression, lgbtq, living together, gay, parents and children, eccentric family, lgbtqi ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
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Straight from the Barrio (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young drug dealer falls in love while facing disruption among the men in his gang, and being offered a career as a Reggaetón singer.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: fall in love, going straight, moral dilemma, hidden identity, life is a bitch, love and romance, youth, disorder, gangster, swashbuckler, urban, music ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, puerto rico
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 6.5
 91
The Journey (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Steve, a young slacker is forced to grow up when his girlfriend Rhona leaves for Mexico to study archeology. Steve resolves to go on a journey to find his love.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience: date night
Plot: coming of age, couples, friends, self discovery, youth, love and romance, on the road, love triangle, womanizer, addiction, true love, computers and web ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
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 5.7
 448
Tango Shalom (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When a Tango dancer asks a Rabbi to enter a dance competition, there’s one big problem—due to his Orthodox beliefs, he’s not allowed to touch her! But the prize money would save his school from bankruptcy, so they develop a plan to enter the ...
Style: captivating, entertaining, humorous, light, spiritual ...
Plot: tango, religion, understanding, competition, jewish family, family relations, dance, muslim, peace, orthodox jew, dancing, dancehall girl ...
Place: israel, new york, brooklyn new york city
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 7.0
 3K
Madame Satã (2002)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In turn, bandit, transvestite, street fighter, brothel cook, convict and father to seven adopted children, dos ...
Style: serious, rough, emotional, lgbt cinema, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lgbt, gay, nightclub, transvestism, performer's life, gender bending, rise and fall, social misfits, life is a bitch, artists and showbiz, society, female warrior ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place: brazil, china, arabia, rio de janeiro
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 6.1
 579
Sanky Panky (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In the Dominican Republic, the local Genaro works in a small family store and lives with his mother in a poor neighborhood. He is learning a couple of words in English and dreams on being a sanky-panky: to get married to an American tourist, move to ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, couples, cons and scams, immigrant, dishonesty, womanizer, infidelity, woman, older woman younger man relationship, beach, music ...
Time: 21st century
Place: caribbean
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 7.3
 3K
I Come (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain, France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Caco is a proud, handsome man, head of a family, and very powerful in the local community. Yet he has been torn to pieces by the death of his beloved daughter. He constantly visits her grave, weeps silently at her photo and has transferred all his ...
Style: emotional, atmospheric, rough, touching, mind blowing ...
Plot: gypsy, vengeance, loss of daughter, family problems, family tradition, rivalry, flamenco, european, death in the family, siblings relations, music, dealing with death ...
Time: 20th century
Place: spain
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Violeta Went to Heaven (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Chile, Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves and her hopes.
Style: serious, sincere, sentimental, realistic, touching ...
Plot: music, museum, folklore, follow your dream, loss of daughter, hopes, lifestyle, musician's life, performer's life, rising to stardom, artists and showbiz, musical tour ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 60s, 1940s, 1930s
Place: chile, latin america, geneva switzerland, paris france, santiago chile ...
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 6.2
 2K
Oh My God! (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil), we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house who try to get by using creativity, irony, humor and music.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, sincere, realistic
Plot: optimism, social differences, urban ghetto life, life is a bitch, urban ghetto, friendship, racism, partner, social relations, friends, culture clash, interracial relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, brazil, northeast brazil
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 4.1
 874
Sabor tropical (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Panama, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Sex-charged journalist Brian is chosen by an online publication to travel to Panama and document one of Latin America s premier festival celebrations Carnaval de Las Tablas. Dangers lurk for foreigners, and caught up in the carnival madness, ...
Style: psychological, suspense, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Plot: destructive relationship, media, nightlife, journalist, journey, carnival, danger, society, gay, gay erotica, male pubic hair, male nudity ...
Place: los angeles, panama
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The City of Your Final Destination (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: 28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund--his brother, widow, and younger mistress--so he can get ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, rough, tense ...
Plot: social relations, obsessive quest, lifestyle, writer's life, college graduate, village, writers, male female relationship, journey, flirting, teacher, storytelling ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: uruguay, south america, latin america, greece, colorado ...
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End of the Century (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Two men meet in Barcelona and after spending a day together they realize that they have already met twenty years ago.
Style: unusual plot structure, sexy, sentimental, captivating, romantic ...
Plot: gay, gay interest, lgbt, gay erotica, gay lead character, male nudity, gay love, lovers, gays and lesbians, homosexual, tourist, cruise ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: madrid, barcelona
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Dance with Me (1998)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the first time. The difficult part is that John doesn't know he is Rafael's father. John runs a dance studio, and everyone prepares for the World ...
Style: romantic, light, entertaining, exciting, feel good ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: dancing, music, dancer's life, ballroom dancing, dance, follow your dream, mentor, hopes, ambition, social differences, teachers and students, contests and competitions ...
Time: year 1998
Place: las vegas, austin texas, cuba, usa, texas ...
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How to Be a Latin Lover (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An aging Latin lover gets dumped by his sugar mama and must fend for himself in a harsh world.
Style: light, feel good, captivating, humorous, laugh out loud ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: uncle nephew relationship, dating, aging, lovers, promise, seduction, wealth, trust, chase, party, money, marriage ...
Time: year 2017, year 1950
Place: acapulco mexico
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 6.9
 36K
La Bamba (1987)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of singer Ritchie Valens whose life was cut short by a plane crash.
Style: inspirational, touching, hispanic, intense, suspense ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: musician's life, biopic, music, rock and roll, interracial romance, rock, music business, musician, happy ending, love story, racism, audition ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: los angeles, usa, southern california, new york, tijuana mexico
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 8.0
 110K
Elite Squad (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, USA, Argentina
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
Style: disturbing, bleak, serious, intense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, police brutality, drug traffic, slum, drug lord, favela, squad, law enforcement, torture, poverty, police, organized crime ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 90s, 20th century, year 1997 ...
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america, south america
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 6.5
 10K
The Lost City (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950's, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent nightclub owner, is caught in the violent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the Marxist government of Fidel Castro. Castro's regime ...
Style: captivating, touching, stylized, sincere, period piece ...
Plot: politics, revolution, nightclub, idealism, cuban revolution, fidel castro, immigrant, love and romance, dictatorship, family problems, chaos, political unrest ...
Time: year 2005, 1950s, 50s, 20th century
Place: cuba, latin america, havana cuba
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 4.7
 526
Catching Faith (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: From the outside, Alexa has the perfect life. Her son is the high school football star, daughter a straight A student and her husband is CFO of a booming start-up company. The sudden death ...
Style: christian film, light, feel good, captivating, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot: high school student, american football, christian, faith, football, religion, high school athlete, high school football, christianity, belief in god, high school, mockery ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, america, wisconsin
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Mind of Mencia (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Mind of Mencia was an American television comedy series on the cable channel Comedy Central. Hosted by Carlos Mencia, it aired from 2005 to 2008.
Style: sketch comedy, realistic, not serious, witty, parody ...
Plot: stand up comedian, performer's life, disorder, society, social relations, couples, celebrity culture, stereotypes, interracial relations, satire, vulgar, racial stereotype ...
Time: y2k, 21st century
Place: usa, mexico
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Rain over Santiago (1975)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Bulgaria
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A semi-fictional account on the fatidic September 11, 1973, when the military commanded by General Pinochet took over the power from socialist president Salvador Allende, initiating a dictatorship that lasted until 1988 causing the deaths and ...
Plot: coup, human, consciousness, humanity, politics, cold war, history of chile, cia, journalism, senator, military coup, coup d'etat ...
Time: 20th century, year 1973, 70s
Place: chile, latin america, santiago chile
Is relevant ?
 7.7
 23K
Missing (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to a South American country to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a right-wing military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he ...
Style: political, political thriller, emotional, talky, tense ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: dictatorship, politics, military coup, political conspiracy, corruption, conspiracy, journalist, political intrigue, military, missing person, capitalism, coup d'etat ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1982, year 1973
Place: chile, latin america, south america, washington d.c., santiago chile
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The House of the Spirits (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Denmark, Portugal
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, family saga, melancholic ...
Plot: civil war, magic realism, farm, justice, dysfunctional family, politics, coup d'etat, rape, family relations, dictatorship, generation gap, parents and children ...
Time: 1940s, year 1993, 1930s, 1920s, 70s ...
Place: latin america, chile
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Pinochet's Last Stand (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1998 former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet visits Britain for medical treatment. On being tipped off, Amnesty International seize the chance to bring to justice a man they insist is guilty of multiple human rights violations. The newly-elected ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Plot: politics, rebellion, state affairs, against humanity, downfall, life is a bitch, society, dishonesty, legal, politician, trial, human rights ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998
Place: latin america, chile, london, england
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The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.
Style: suspense, touching, suspenseful, intense, detective ...
Audience: adult
Plot: investigation, twists and turns, rape, murder, lawyer, murder mystery, investigator, serial killer, revenge, homicide, vengeance, writers ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, y2k, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: argentina, latin america, south america, harvard university, buenos aires argentina
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