Tag: hispanic

  • Things Are Tough All Over

    Everybody has problems these days, and Cheech and Chong are no exceptions. They’re hired by Slyman and Habib to drive a limousine to Las Vegas with $5 million secretly stashed in the front seat. In order to get there, the pair sells off the car piece by piece, including the seven-figure front seat. Cheech and…

  • The Milagro Beanfield War

    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.

  • Mi Vida Loca

    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.

  • The Pest

    Fast-talking Latino con artist Pestario “Pest” Vargas is the target of Scottish mobsters to whom he owes a considerable debt. Willing to do anything to raise money and avoid severe injury or death, Vargas agrees to a very unusual job — he will be transported to a remote island and hunted by Gustav Shank, a…

  • The Latino List

    Documentary film interviews leading Latinos on race, identity, and achievement.

  • Marfa Girl

    A disaffected Texas teen spends his 16th birthday getting high, hanging out and having casual sex.

  • Spare Parts

    With the help of their high school’s newest teacher, four Hispanic students form a robotics club. Although they have no experience, the youths set their sights on a national robotics contest. With $800 and parts scavenged from old cars, they build a robot and compete against reigning champion MIT. Along the way, the students learn…

  • Get Out of My Room

    Get Out of My Room, was a mockumentary in the style of This Is Spinal Tap, written and directed by Cheech Marin. In the film, he and Tommy Chong are shown attempting to finish a “video album” for their novelty record Get Out of My Room.