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1. A Man Called Otto (2022)
PG-13 | 126 min | Comedy, Drama
Otto is a grump who's given up on life following the loss of his wife and wants to end it all. When a young family moves in nearby, he meets his match in quick-witted Marisol, leading to a friendship that will turn his world around.
Director: Marc Forster | Stars: Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller, John Higgins
Votes: 159,551 | Gross: $62.47M
2. Machete (2010)
R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
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.
Directors: Ethan Maniquis, Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba
Votes: 204,205 | Gross: $26.59M
3. In the Heights (2021)
PG-13 | 143 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
In Washington Heights, a sympathetic New York bodega owner saves every penny every day as he imagines and sings about a better life.
Director: Jon M. Chu | Stars: Anthony Ramos, Corey Hawkins, Leslie Grace, Melissa Barrera
Votes: 52,206
4. Starman (1984)
PG | 115 min | Romance, Sci-Fi
An alien takes the form of a young Wisconsin widow's husband and makes her drive him to his departure point in Arizona. Distrustful government agents, along with a more ambivalent scientist, give pursuit in hopes of intercepting them.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel
Votes: 52,365 | Gross: $28.70M
5. No One Gets Out Alive (2021)
R | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
After being forced to take a room in a boardinghouse, an immigrant in search of the American Dream finds herself in a nightmare she can't escape.
Director: Santiago Menghini | Stars: Phil Robertson, Joana Borja, Victoria Alcock, Cristina Rodlo
Votes: 20,974
6. The Forever Purge (2021)
R | 103 min | Action, Crime, Horror
All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end.
Director: Everardo Gout | Stars: Ana de la Reguera, Tenoch Huerta, Josh Lucas, Leven Rambin
Votes: 43,579 | Gross: $44.54M
7. Spanglish (2004)
PG-13 | 131 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family whose patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife.
Director: James L. Brooks | Stars: Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni, Paz Vega, Cloris Leachman
Votes: 88,629 | Gross: $42.73M
8. Bowfinger (1999)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy
When a desperate movie producer fails to get a major star for his bargain-basement film, he decides to shoot the film secretly around him.
Director: Frank Oz | Stars: Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Heather Graham, Christine Baranski
Votes: 74,049 | Gross: $66.38M
9. Hot Spur (1968)
91 min | Western
A deranged stablehand kidnaps the wife of a ranch owner to avenge the rape of his sister.
Director: Lee Frost | Stars: James Arena, Virginia Gordon, Joseph Mascolo, Wes Bishop
Votes: 245
10. Harsh Times (2005)
R | 116 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A tough-minded drama about two friends in South Central Los Angeles and the violence that comes between them.
Director: David Ayer | Stars: Christian Bale, Freddy Rodríguez, Eva Longoria, Chaka Forman
Votes: 68,628 | Gross: $3.34M
11. Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989)
R | 80 min | Comedy, Horror
After murdering a young girl, Angela Baker assumes her identity and travels to Camp New Horizons, built on the grounds of the camp she terrorized the year before, and starts killing again.
Director: Michael A. Simpson | Stars: Pamela Springsteen, Tracy Griffith, Michael J. Pollard, Mark Oliver
Votes: 9,454
12. My Family/Mi familia (1995)
R | 128 min | Drama
A man makes his way from Mexico to Los Angeles in the 1920s and gets married and raises a big family there. The movie follows the children until they get married and start their families in the 1960s.
Director: Gregory Nava | Stars: Jimmy Smits, Esai Morales, Edward James Olmos, Rafael Cortes
Votes: 4,517 | Gross: $11.08M
13. The Night Before (1988)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy
A popular beauty surprisingly asks a nerd to take her to the prom. He wakes up hours later in a sleazy alley. She's missing but he remembers nothing about it.
Director: Thom Eberhardt | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Lori Loughlin, Theresa Saldana, Trinidad Silva
Votes: 3,653
14. Duffle Bag Boy (2024)
Action, Adventure, Crime
Lost and forgotten, a homeless veteran hitchhikes his way into becoming an outlaw and goes to war with the kingpin of a criminal empire.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Alexander Raye Pimentel, James Anthony Perez, Cheryce Livingston, Don Tempesta
Votes: 32
15. Quicksilver (1986)
PG | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Jack was doing great trading shares until he wasn't. He gets a job on a bike at Quicksilver speed delivery. There he befriends Hector and the cute Terri. Jack gets an enemy in the criminal Gypsy.
Director: Thomas Michael Donnelly | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz, Paul Rodriguez, Rudy Ramos
Votes: 5,313 | Gross: $7.63M
16. Diabolique (1996)
R | 107 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The wife and mistress of the sadistic dean of an exclusive prep school conspire to murder him.
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik | Stars: Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri, Kathy Bates
Votes: 15,398 | Gross: $17.10M
17. Fast Food Nation (2006)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama
When contaminated meat is placed in the freezer next to that used for a fast food chain's most famous sandwich, a marketing executive seeks to find out who did it and why, taking a journey through the dark side of American alimentation.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Greg Kinnear, Bruce Willis, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Wilmer Valderrama
Votes: 25,170 | Gross: $1.00M
18. Happy Endings (2005)
R | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Happy Endings weaves multiple stories to create a witty look at love, family and the sheer unpredictability of life itself.
Director: Don Roos | Stars: Lisa Kudrow, Steve Coogan, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jesse Bradford
Votes: 9,419 | Gross: $1.31M
19. Real Women Have Curves (2002)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory.
Director: Patricia Cardoso | Stars: America Ferrera, Lupe Ontiveros, Ingrid Oliu, George Lopez
Votes: 8,258 | Gross: $5.84M
20. My Fellow Americans (1996)
PG-13 | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy
Two former U. S. Presidents, hated rivals, join forces to expose the current, corrupt President at the risk of their lives.
Director: Peter Segal | Stars: Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Dan Aykroyd, John Heard
Votes: 15,923 | Gross: $22.29M
21. Held Up (1999)
PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy
What should have been a romantic getaway turns into one hilarious debacle after another when Michael's woman dumps him in the desert where he gets carjacked by a teenager and he is taken hostage in a stickup at the local Sip and Zip.
Director: Steve Rash | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Nia Long, Barry Corbin, John Cullum
Votes: 4,144 | Gross: $4.69M
22. The Second Civil War (1997 TV Movie)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
A simple immigration issue spins wildly out of control for those involved, ranging from the President of the United States, to a news producer.
Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Beau Bridges, Joanna Cassidy, Phil Hartman, James Earl Jones
Votes: 2,288
23. A Day Without a Mexican (2004)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
When a mysterious fog surrounds the boundaries of California, there is a communication breakdown and all the Mexicans disappear, affecting the economy and the state stops working missing the Mexican workers and dwellers.
Director: Sergio Arau | Stars: Caroline Aaron, Tony Abatemarco, Melinda Allen, Frankie J. Allison
Votes: 3,228 | Gross: $4.18M
24. Fled (1996)
R | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Two prisoners chained together flee during an escape attempt gone bad.
Director: Kevin Hooks | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Stephen Baldwin, Will Patton, Robert John Burke
Votes: 9,837 | Gross: $17.10M
25. The Motive (2017)
TV-MA | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A man obsessed with the idea of writing "high literature" starts to cause conflicts around him to write about it.
Director: Manuel Martín Cuenca | Stars: Javier Gutiérrez, María León, Adelfa Calvo, Adriana Paz
Votes: 6,741
26. Beatriz at Dinner (2017)
R | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
A holistic medicine practitioner attends a wealthy client's dinner party after her car breaks down.
Director: Miguel Arteta | Stars: Salma Hayek, John Lithgow, Connie Britton, Jay Duplass
Votes: 10,860 | Gross: $7.12M
27. Bread and Roses (2000)
R | 110 min | Drama
Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo, Jack McGee
Votes: 6,086 | Gross: $0.53M
28. Julia (2008)
R | 144 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A woman tries to extort money, using a young boy as bait.
Director: Erick Zonca | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo, Aidan Gould
Votes: 6,966 | Gross: $0.00M
29. Border Incident (1949)
Passed | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Mexican and American federal agents tackle a vicious gang exploiting illegal farm workers in southern California.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva, James Mitchell
Votes: 2,743
30. Quinceañera (2006)
R | 90 min | Drama
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.
Directors: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland | Stars: Emily Rios, Jesse Garcia, Chalo González, Jesus Castanos
Votes: 4,301 | Gross: $1.69M
31. Sleep Dealer (2008)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
The near future. Like tomorrow. In a world marked by closed borders, corporate warriors, and a global computer network, three strangers risk their lives to connect, break through the barriers of technology, and unseal their fates.
Director: Alex Rivera | Stars: Luis Fernando Peña, Leonor Varela, Jacob Vargas, Metztli Adamina
Votes: 6,690 | Gross: $0.08M
32. Los lobos (2019)
TV-14 | 95 min | Drama
Two children emigrate to the US with their mother. Their days pass in a tiny flat waiting for her to come back as they hold on to the hope of visiting Disneyworld.
Director: Samuel Kishi | Stars: Martha Reyes Arias, Maximiliano Nájar Márquez, Leonardo Nájar Márquez, Cici Lau
Votes: 1,235
33. Good Day, Ramon (2013)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama
Ramon, a young Mexican boy, tries to cross the border for the fifth time but fails. His friend tells him about his aunt living in Germany and that she has a better life over there. Ramon then goes to Germany to find his friend's aunt.
Director: Jorge Ramírez Suárez | Stars: Kristyan Ferrer, Ingeborg Schöner, Adriana Barraza, Arcelia Ramírez
Votes: 3,003 | Gross: $0.10M
34. Murieta! (1965)
107 min | Biography, Western
The story of Joaquin Murrieta, a real life Mexican bandit who terrorized California with his gang of raiders and cutthroats during the first half of the 19th century. Some saw him as a murderous outlaw, others as the Mexican Robin Hood.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Diana Lorys, Arthur Kennedy, Roberto Camardiel
Votes: 162
35. Linewatch (2008)
R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A US Border Patrol agent is recognized by members of the vicious LA gang he used to be a part of and is forced to help them smuggle drugs into the country.
Director: Kevin Bray | Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Omari Hardwick, Evan Ross, Dean Norris
Votes: 3,054
36. No Room to Die (1969)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Western
Django and Santana are bounty hunters taking out bandits in a small Western town. An evil landowner smuggling illegal immigrants and the men that work for him have mighty fine prices on ... See full summary »
Director: Sergio Garrone | Stars: Anthony Steffen, William Berger, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Mariangela Giordano
Votes: 635
37. The Bastards (2008)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Jesus and Fausto, two low-paid Mexican laborers working illegally across the border in LA, are offered big money and a sawn-off shotgun to break into the home of a drug addicted single mother and take her hostage.
Director: Amat Escalante | Stars: Jesus Moises Rodriguez, Rubén Sosa, Nina Zavarin, Kenny Johnston
Votes: 1,520
38. Sueño (2005)
PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A Mexican-American chases his dreams as he puts together a classic Mexican band to compete in a radio station sponsored contest, all while attempting to court a beautiful girl.
Director: Renée Chabria | Stars: John Leguizamo, Ana Claudia Talancón, Elizabeth Peña, Nestor Serrano
Votes: 620
39. To the Other Side (2004)
90 min | Drama
Three separate stories of children from different places seeking to find their missing fathers.
Director: Gustavo Loza | Stars: Carmen Maura, Héctor Suárez, Vanessa Bauche, Susana González
Votes: 404
40. Across the Line (2000)
R | 99 min | Drama, Thriller
A small-town sheriff falls in love with a Latina illegal immigrant who witnessed a murder on the Texas border.
Director: Martin Spottl | Stars: Brian Bloom, Justin Urich, Brad Johnson, Sigal Erez
Votes: 363
41. Teo's Journey (2008)
Not Rated | 99 min | Adventure, Drama
After illegally crossing the Mexico-U.S. border with his father (Damián Alcázar), young Teo (Erick Cañete) gets separated from him when a gang of bandits attacks them, leaving the boy lost ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Doehner | Stars: Erick Cañete, Dagoberto Gama, Damián Alcázar, Joaquín Cosio
Votes: 132
42. Bisbee '17 (2018)
PG | 112 min | Documentary, History, Western
An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.
Director: Robert Greene | Stars: Mike Anderson, Charles Bethea, Chris Dietz, Mary Ellen Dunlap
Votes: 715 | Gross: $0.12M
43. La Ciudad (the City) (1998)
88 min | Drama
The stories of four Hispanic immigrants living in New York City.
Director: David Riker | Stars: Anthony Rivera, Joseph Rigano, Miguel Maldonado, Ricardo Cuevas
Votes: 375 | Gross: $0.24M
44. Los jornaleros (2003)
88 min | Drama
Los Jornaleros presents the interwoven stories of three young Hispanic men who come to this country to pursue te American dream and instead end up struggling as day-laborers.
Director: Lane Shefter Bishop | Stars: Shawn Bernal, Marc Bossley, James C. Burns, Jose Caro
Votes: 173
45. Johnny Chicano (1981)
85 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A young peasant falls in love with his American boss, creating nothing but trouble for his Mexican girlfriend and his family.
Director: Enrique Gómez Vadillo | Stars: Fernando Allende, Verónica Castro, Silvia Pasquel, Jaime Garza
Votes: 26
46. Welcome Paisano (2006)
PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy
After being living in the USA a Mexican gardener with his family returns to his country of origin.
Director: Rafael Villaseñor Kuri | Stars: Rafael Inclán, María Sorté, Teresa Ruiz, Giovani Florido
Votes: 56
47. ...and the Earth Did Not Swallow Him (1994)
99 min | Drama
Marcos is a lad in Texas, the second son of a migrant farmworker family, his brother is missing in the Korean war. We travel with the family into Minnesota, following the crops. The housing... See full summary »
Director: Severo Perez | Stars: Jose Alcala, Rose Portillo, Art Bonilla, Marco Rodríguez
Votes: 165
48. Coyote (2007)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
After their Mexican friend gets deported, two young Americans decide to begin smuggling illegal immigrants into Arizona for profit.
Director: Brian Petersen | Stars: Brian Petersen, Brett Hernandez Spackman, Carley Adams, Marina Valle
Votes: 149
49. Through the Valley (I) (2008)
89 min | Drama
An innocent man framed for murder, and the system that just wants another minority conviction.
Director: Juan C.vazquez | Stars: Pablo Bracho, Punkin Michels, Angela D. Smith, Samantha Esteban
Votes: 75
50. Amexicano (2007)
PG-13 | 84 min | Drama
A look at the bond between an illegal immigrant and a blue-collar Italian-American from Queens.
Director: Matthew Bonifacio | Stars: Hugo Aleman, Sophia Antonini, Michael Aronov, Edison Carrera
Votes: 300 | Gross: $0.01M