| Up in Smoke (1978) | 6.9 | |
| Echo Park LA (2006) | 6.9 | |
| Desperado (1995) | 7.1 | |
| La Bamba (1987) | 7.0 | |
| A Better Life (2011) | 7.2 |
Chicano movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant chicano movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, independent film, serious, melancholic, harsh and hispanic films and TV shows about / with chicano, mentor, storytelling, catastrophe, brutality, runaway, vengeance, murder, society and dialogue plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in USA, Mexico, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as chicano: Blood In, Blood Out (1993), My Crazy Life (1993), Vatos Locos (2011), American Me (1992), Stand and Deliver (1988), La Bamba (1987), My Family (1995), Selena (1997), Frida (2002), Machete (2010).
Best films
New films
| Get the Gringo (2012) | 6.9 | |
| Savages (2012) | 6.4 | |
| Streets of East L.A. (2016) | 4.1 | |
| Ranchero (2008) | 5.1 | |
| El Chicano (2018) | 5.4 |
List of chicano movies
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
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", ...
Style:
cult classic, intense, entertaining, bad ending, serious ...
Plot:
gang, street gang, prison gang, drug abuse, prison, gangster, destiny, male nudity, jail, ghetto, violence spree, drug addiction ...
Time:
20th century, year 1993, 90s, 70s, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, ecuador, south america, usa ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
realistic, talky, serious, hood, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gang, gang member, coming of age, friendship, chicano, juvenile delinquency, teenager, drug dealing, unlikely friendships, gangster, urban ghetto, urban ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
los angeles, south america, usa, tokyo, california ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Thriller - 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 ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, crime thriller, independent film ...
Plot:
gang member, gangster, brothers, organized crime, criminal underworld, chicano, criminal gang, gang war, brother brother relationship, criminal, bandit, outlaw gang ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Edward J. Olmos made his directorial bow with the powerhouse crime saga American Me. Olmos stars as street-gang leader Santana, who during his 18 years in Folsom Prison rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, ...
Style:
sexy, disturbing, talky, emotional, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, gang, prison gang, violence, sexual abuse, gay rape, homosexual rape, racism, prison life, visceral, jail, mafia ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 70s, 50s, 1950s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, south america, usa, san francisco
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, sentimental, realistic, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot:
mathematics, teacher, high school, dedicated educator, bullying, school, biopic, mentor, chicano, civil rights, school teacher, coming of age ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
los angeles, america, usa, california
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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, intense, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
music, musician's life, biopic, rock and roll, interracial romance, musician, happy ending, love story, rock, rock music, music business, racism ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, southern california, new york, tijuana mexico ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930's. They establish their family in ...
Style:
independent film, touching, sad, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
immigrant, chicano, marriage, family relations, father son relationship, prison, death of wife, cultural difference, gang member, mexican gang, culture, gang ...
Time:
1920s, 1950s, 50s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, mexico
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34K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her at small venues. She finds success and falls for ...
Style:
touching, sad, sincere, factual, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, girls' night, teens
Plot:
music, murder, dancing, tragedy, childhood, singer, musician's life, musician, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, marriage, racial segregation ...
Time:
80s, 90s, year 1997, 20th century, year 1981 ...
Place:
texas, mexico, usa, los angeles, california
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and ...
Style:
visually appealing, independent film, sexy, emotional, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
painter, artist, art, painting, female artist, bohemian life, lgbtq, disability, feminism, female protagonist, life, relationships ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 2002, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place:
mexico, paris france, empire state building manhattan new york city, mexico city, america ...
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209K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.
Style:
grindhouse, stylized, parody, dark comedy, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
hitman, vigilante, revenge, blood, machete, corruption, vengeance, violence, dark humor, tough guy, bodyguard, immigrant ...
Time:
year 2010, 20th century, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
texas, mexico, usa, austin texas
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without ...
Style:
humorous, parody, funny, entertaining, talky ...
Plot:
culture clash, immigrant, mistaken identity, deportation, weed, farce, adaptation, lone hero, twists and turns, fish out of water, dishonesty, misfit ...
Time:
80s
Place:
mexico, los angeles, latin america, tijuana mexico, california
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A focus on life in a gang, Boulevard Nights portrays the dangers of street violence. Richard Yniguez plays a young Chicano who tries to get out of the gang, but he keeps finding himself drawn back into it.
Style:
hood, crime drama, hispanic, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
gang, gang member, gangster, mexican gang, chicano, mafia, street gang, brother brother relationship, teenager, coming of age, street kid, thug ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
los angeles, south america, california
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Mexico
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.
Style:
independent film, political, depressing, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
immigrant, immigration, magic realism, indigenous people, brother sister relationship, culture clash, chicano, working class, american dream, social commentary, tragedy, strike ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
guatemala, mexico, los angeles, san diego california, latin america ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor...a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. The drug lord and his henchmen mistake El Mariachi ...
Style:
independent film, cult classic, action packed, grindhouse, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, mistaken identity, machine gun, modern western, vigilante, musician, gangster, guitarist, assassin, small town, gunfight, violence ...
Time:
90s, future
Place:
mexico, mexico city, latin america
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Romantic comedy about an honest Mexican immigrant who struggles without a green card by selling oranges on a street corner. One day a limousine pulls up and he is handed a check for $1,000,000 with instructions that he is to give the check back in ...
Style:
independent film, slapstick, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
chicano, family relations, community, restaurant, money, immigrant, disorder, mistaken identity, cons and scams, down on your luck, rich and poor, social differences ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
usa, mexico, los angeles, california, latin america
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Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Seth Gecko and his younger brother Richard are on the run after a bloody bank robbery in Texas. They escape across the border into Mexico and will be home-free the next morning, when they pay off the local kingpin. They just have to survive ...
Style:
bloody, grindhouse, sexy, entertaining, offbeat ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
vampire, hostage, violent, brothers, gory, blood, priest, stripper, bloodsucker, pervert, desert, holy water ...
Time:
90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place:
mexico, texas, austin texas, midwest, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry) is a designer from New York City who is sent to Las Vegas to supervise the construction of a nightclub that his firm has been hired to build. Alex is a straight-laced WASP-ish type who, while enjoying a night on the ...
Style:
humorous, romantic comedy, entertaining, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
fall in love, pregnancy, wedding, interracial love, destiny, culture clash, love, couples, love affair, society, nothing goes right, social differences ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century, year 1995, year 1996
Place:
las vegas, usa, new york, nevada, mexico ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Colombia, Ecuador
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, independent film, depressing, touching ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
drug dealing, immigrant, human trafficking, friendship, coming of age, depression, drug, illegal immigration, women, drug abuse, addiction, character study ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
colombia, new york, south america, new jersey, latin america ...
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The opening titles explain that American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rape, protagonist as suspect, murder, journalist, corruption, investigation, uncover truth, police corruption, serial killer, survival, sex slave, rape victim ...
Time:
90s, year 2006
Place:
mexico, latin america, chicago, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.
Style:
touching, melancholic, sentimental, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, gay, culture clash, religion, teenage pregnancy, gay latino, character study, life turned upside down, starting over, lgbtq ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, glendale california, spain
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Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Set on the border, where Mexico becomes the crucible and the fearsome gangs of today’s Mexican countryside, the gauntlet, to freedom. The stories of a girl living in Honduras and hungering for a brighter future, and two teen gang members, for whom ...
Style:
road movie, serious, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gang, immigrant, u.s. mexico border, street gang, juvenile delinquency, gang member, social problems, family reunited, mexican drug cartel, illegal immigrant, rape, death ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico, south america, central america, mexico city ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Ex-Federale agent Machete is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man – he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a plan to ...
Style:
parody, grindhouse, absurd, stylized, black comedy ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
machete, blood, vigilante, fight scenes, sexual content, terrorist plot, gory, assassin, female fighter, lone hero, tough heroes, violent ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
mexico, texas, washington d.c., austin texas, cuba ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
tense, dramatic, suspenseful, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, gangster, gang member, revenge motive, neighborhood, gang of outlaws, gang, criminal, criminal gang, murder, attorney ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
After surviving a stabbing by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles. There, he resumes teaching as a substitute teacher. The education system, where violent bullies control the classrooms and the administration is ...
Style:
hood, cult classic, suspense, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teacher, high school, urban, hip hop, revenge, gang, gangster, vigilante, vengeance, mentor, teaching, mexican gang ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey ...
Is relevant?
33K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
realistic, hood, psychological, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
police, gang, gangster, hip hop, buddy cop, chase, gunfight, mafia, urban, cop, gang member, partner ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles, venice beach california ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit Pedro de Pacas. While the drug-ingesting duo is soon arrested for possession of marijuana, Anthony ...
Style:
grindhouse, sexy, funny, cult classic, laugh out loud ...
Plot:
stoner, marijuana, drug, weed, rock and roll, buddy, road trip, stoned, satire, hippie, exploitation, hitchhiker ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1977
Place:
los angeles, mexico, california, latin america, vietnam ...
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Cheech & Chong are invited to a celebrity party in Amsterdam. When they get there, however, it turns out that the guy who invited them has taken off with all the money. They are actually expecting Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton, so our ...
Style:
realistic, not serious, humorous, witty, funny ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
weed, drug, buddies, stoner, anti hero, mistaken identity, nothing goes right, misfit, goofy hero, disorder, fish out of water, drug abuse ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
europe, amsterdam, netherlands, holland
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Perennially stoned Cheech and Chong tear through the city of Los Angeles, causing trouble wherever they go. After Cheech loses his job, the two pot enthusiasts head to the welfare offices where Cheech's girlfriend, Donna, works. Instead of ...
Style:
grindhouse, funny, psychedelic, humorous, intelligent ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
marijuana, weed, stoner, drug, space and aliens, drug traffic, stoned, drug abuse, chicano, hippie, buddy, cadet ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1980, 80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, thought provoking, inspirational ...
Plot:
immigrant, u.s. mexico border, single father, truck, father son relationship, theft, single parent, parenthood, character study, teenage life, working class, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, mexico, southern california, south america ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A juvenile court judge goes out of her way to try to aid a young man whom she believes has innocently gotten involved with a gang.
Style:
crime drama, tension, emotional, suspense, grim ...
Plot:
judge, gang, female judge, teenager, courtroom, violence, moral dilemma, urban, urban decay, chicano, social realism, coming of age ...
Place:
los angeles
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