Hispanic Movies

Le vere esperienze di vita del poeta Jimmy Santiago Baca, concentrate nei suoi fratellastri Paco e Cruz e sul loro cugino birazziale Miklo.

In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his extravagant lifestyle and prowess, his young son Kilo yearns to follow in his footsteps. Kilo resolves to learn how to prosper in the drug world, and his new life as a dealer begins. Starting off small, dealing to the high school and college market, Kilo discovers that the drug business is very profitable. With a little help from the well-connected, seductive daughter of a Colombian gangster, he becomes a drug kingpin with a nationwide monopoly on drug-running. While conquering the drug world, Kilo falls in love with a local Latina who quickly becomes pregnant. Shortly thereafter, Kilo is involved in a drug deal with a wired frat boy that goes bad, and he is imprisoned. His exciting, stylish life as a drug lord seems to have come to a halt. But prison life does not stop Kilo from running his operation. He enlists the support of other prisoners including Crips, Bloods, and a very powerful Jamaican mobster, and is able to expand his drug empire. Not only is his business booming, he is also hired by the governor to kill another inmate in return for an early release. It seems like a perfect opportunity for Kilo to get back to his family, but this job leads to a world of trouble for him after his release. He is now a free man and a new father with a drug franchise covering both coasts. He is living a life of luxury in a huge mansion with a Mercedes in the driveway. Several years after his release, his drug-using father Manny comes back into his life and Kilo reluctantly welcomes him back with a job overseeing all of his drug-runners. Everything is perfect. Watching his son grow up has a profound effect on him and he limits his dealing to marijuana. This business decision slows down his profits. Also, a conservative judge and the attorney general become suspicious of his early release and its relation to the murdered prisoner. The feds are now determined to bring Kilo's operation down. Arrests of his posse are piling up and, profits are plummeting. Everything is going entirely too wrong, and Kilo can't stop it. In a world where a man wants everything, he could end up with nothing.

Johnny Sun and his little brother are Mexican-American gangsters.

A masked singer who also robs banks is interrogated and during the interrogation, he shows how he became who he is.

Tomas is too much for his lone mother so she sends him to live with his older brother Federico, aka Sombra, in Mexico City.

The life story of Hector Lavoe, who started the salsa movement in 1975 and brought it to the United States.

La vera storia di Selena, una cantante nata in Texas, figlia di genitori messicani, che è passata di cantare in chiesa all'esibizione all'Astrodome, oltre ad avere album in cima alle classifiche delle musicali latine.

Un boss della mafia messicano-statunitense viene rilasciato dalla prigione, si innamora per la prima volta e diventa introspettivo sul suo stile di vita da gangster.

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.

A single-parent ex-con in a tough minority neighborhood finds his personal values challenged when he discovers his son is gay.

La vera storia di Jaime Escalante, un insegnante di liceo che ha ispirato i suoi studenti, inclini ad abbandonare la scuola, a imparare la matematica.

When barrio leader Henry Reyna and his friends are unjustly convicted on circumstantial evidence, activist lawyers Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant racially motivated miscarriage of justice to win them their freedom.

Hijos de la Guerra ("Children of the War") is a feature-length documentary film about the world's largest and most violent street gang: the Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13. The MS-13 gang spans the Americas with an estimated membership of 100,000 people across the United States and Central America. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has declared the MS-13 the fastest growing and most violent street gang in the United States. The Mara Salvatrucha was formed in Los Angeles in the late 1980s by Salvadoran Civil War refugees as a means to protect themselves from rival ethnic gangs. The newly formed gang channeled the widespread trauma of a genocidal civil war on entire generations of orphaned and abandoned children into fanatical violence. This formed the basis for MS's explosive growth. MS-13 has since become a growing threat throughout 33 states in the U.S. and in every country in Central America. The institution of systematic and increasingly stern U.S. deportation policies, along with forceful Salvadoran armed repression of the members, has radicalized the group. Instead of tempering the gang's influence, these policies have propelled the gang into a powerful, aggressive and multiplying force that seems increasingly difficult to control. Through a series of over 80 interviews (including gang members across several countries, the gang's founders, experts and academics) and powerful footage inside jails in El Salvador, gang-infested neighborhoods of Los Angeles, and Salvadoran communities across the East Coast of the United States, the film sheds light on the root personal reasons for gang membership, the ensuing explosion of fratricidal violence as well as the complex role of social and government policy in both containing and aggravating gang proliferation. Hijos de la Guerra ("Children of the War") is the first feature-length documentary film to tell the story of the MS-13. It addresses the causes and circumstances that have fueled this gang's ominous rise to power.

In Honduras, una famiglia decide di entrare negli Stati Uniti, dove vive la mamma. In Messico, un uomo lotta con la sua appartenenza a una banda. Le circostanze costringeranno i loro percorsi a convergere, nel bene e nel male.

Follows members of "la dieciocho" gang in a poor San Salvador neighborhood, showing their bleak reality. Photojournalist Christian Poveda captures life in the 18th Street gang.

Narco Cultura (Spanish, English subtitles) takes viewers behind the scenes of narcocorridos, the most explosive and violent music subculture in America.

Nicolas Entel's searing documentary tells the story of Pablo Escobar -- Colombian drug kingpin, murderer and family man -- through the eyes of his son, Sebastian, as well as the sons of two of Escobar's most prominent victims.

The career and death of notorious Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.

Different people from Medellin explain how difficult it is to live and survive in a city where violence/killing is common. Everyday, someone you know may die or get wounded by one of the armed factions that struggle throughout the country.

A look at how the lives of Colombian footballer Andres Escobar and drug lord Pablo Escobar were intertwined, alongside the mysterious events that led to Andres' murder in 1994.

Pablo, Angel o Demonio is the untold story of a man who changed our world forever. He created the multinational enterprise of cocaine trafficking and through terror brought a country to its knees, but through altruistic generosity he transformed the lives of his people, the underprivileged.

The life of Andres Lopez Lopez during his years involved with the Colombian Cartel aka "Cartel Norte del Valle".

Mexico's most notorious drug lord schools a naïve journalist as to the principles behind The Cartel's success.

A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately-needed money for her family.

Adriana, 13 anni, viene rapita a Città del Messico da trafficanti sessuali russi. Suo fratello criminale di 17 anni inizia a cercarla. Dall'altra parte del confine, in Texas, si fa aiutare da un poliziotto.