The best Lupe Ontiveros’s movies

Lupe Ontiveros

Lupe Ontiveros

17/09/1942- 26/07/2012
Today we present the best Lupe Ontiveros’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Lupe Ontiveros’s movies.
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The Goonies

The Goonies
7.7/10
A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth Devereaux run off on a big quest to find the secret stash of Pirate One-Eyed Willie.

Universal Soldier

Universal Soldier
6.1/10
An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he begins to experience flashbacks that are forcing him to recall his past.

As Good as It Gets

As Good as It Gets
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 19/12/1997
  • Character: Nora Manning
New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will tolerate him, must leave work to care for her sick son, making it impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast.

Selena

Selena
6.8/10
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 her guitarist, Chris Perez, who draws the ire of her father. Seeking mainstream stardom, Selena begins recording an English-language album which, tragically, she would never complete.

The Border

The Border
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/01/1982
  • Character: Madam in Whorehouse
A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.

The Brave

The Brave
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/07/1997
  • Character: Maria
A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of which could greatly help his poverty stricken family.

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
4.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 01/02/2011
  • Character: Mrs. Cortez
Puppy mayhem turns the lives of newlywed Chihuahua parents Papi and Chloe upside down when their rambunctious, mischievous puppies present one challenge after another. But when their human owners end up in trouble, the tiny pups will stop at nothing to save them - because in good times and hard times, the family always sticks together. So Papi, Chloe and the puppies embark on a heroic adventure, proving once again that big heroes come in small packages.

Dolly Dearest

Dolly Dearest
4.7/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 01/09/1991
  • Character: Camilla
An American family moves to Mexico to fabricate dolls, but their toy factory happens to be next to a Sanzian grave and the toys come into possession of an old, malicious spirit.

Born in East L.A.

Born in East L.A.
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/08/1987
  • Character: Rudy's mother
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 speaking a word of Spanish!

Our Family Wedding

Our Family Wedding
5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/03/2010
  • Character: Momma Cecilia
The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.

Candyman: Day of the Dead

Candyman: Day of the Dead
3.9/10
The Candyman returns to try to convince his female descendent, an artist, to join him as a legendary figure. To this end, he frames her for a series of hideous murders of her friends and associates so that she has nowhere else to turn to.

Cheech & Chong's Next Movie

Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
6/10
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 collecting unemployment, they find themselves thrown back on the streets, searching for a way to earn new income. But when Cheech's cousin, "Red" Mendoza, arrives, things get even crazier.

Real Women Have Curves

Real Women Have Curves
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 18/10/2002
  • Character: Carmen Garcia
Freshly graduated from high school, Ana receives a full scholarship to Columbia University. Her very traditional, old-world parents feel that now is the time for Ana to help provide for the family, not the time for college.

El Norte

El Norte
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/10/1983
  • Character: Nacha
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.

The Big Fix

The Big Fix
6.4/10
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is responsible, with deadly results.

Zoot Suit

Zoot Suit
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 02/10/1981
  • Character: Dolores
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 1940s Los Angeles. Henry Reyna is the leader of a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to San Quentin without substantial evidence for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. As part of the defense committee, Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant miscarriage of justice for the freedom of Henry and his friends.

The Rosary Murders

The Rosary Murders
5.8/10
A killer of Detroit clergy confesses to a priest, who turns sleuth because he cannot tell the police.

Dark Mirror

Dark Mirror
4.7/10
The story about a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to reflect a different reality.

Chuck & Buck

Chuck & Buck
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/01/2000
  • Character: Beverly Franco
A 27-year-old amateur playwright with the maturity level of an adolescent reconnects with a childhood friend, and then proceeds to follow him back to Los Angeles and stalk him.

Passionada

Passionada
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 17/08/2003
  • Character: Angelica Amonte
The film is a romantic comedy about a Portuguese widow whose husband had been a fisherman who died at sea. The widow's teenage daughter wants to be a professional gambler and she convinces her mother to date a British man whose new in town. The widow falls for the Brit, who pretends to be in the fishing business but is actually a professional gambler. The naive daughter gets into some trouble.

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