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Zoot Suit
1981 • Music • Drama
Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 19…
Matched on: Valdez
La Bamba
1987 • Music • Drama
Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called "Donna" that he wrote for his girlfriend. But as his star…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
The China Syndrome
1979 • Drama • Thriller
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publi…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Which Way Is Up?
1977 • Comedy
Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his sex-obsessed father, Rufus, and timid spouse, Annie Mae. He heads fo…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Born in East L.A.
1987 • Comedy
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 w…
Why matched: genres Comedy