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Celebrate heritage and loved ones with Hispanic movies to watch with the whole family! Viewers of all ages can enjoy these movies that entertain, dazzle, and embrace culture, featuring stars like Selena Gomez, Jennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas, Eugenio Derbez, and more.
You’ll find plenty of PG animated classics, including Coco, Puss in Boots, The Book of Life, and the Miles Morales-starring Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The power of music is in this list, too, calling in movies like In the Heights, West Side Story, La Bamba, and Selena. Action abounds in the Zorro and Spy Kids movies (directed by Robert Rodriguez, who also helmed Alita: Battle Angel), while history comes to life with Cesar Chavez, Stand and Deliver, and McFarland, USA.
And most recently, we’ve added more breakthrough superhero blockbusters, including Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Blue Beetle!
Read on for our recommendations of 46 Hispanic movies to watch with the whole family! (And you can find them all in Vudu’s family movies collection, with most on sale!)
#1
Adjusted Score: 94027%
Critics Consensus: Led by Xolo Maridueña’s magnetic performance in the title role, Blue Beetle is a refreshingly family-focused superhero movie with plenty of humor and heart.
#2
Adjusted Score: 119689%
Critics Consensus: Just as visually dazzling and action-packed as its predecessor, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse thrills from start to cliffhanger conclusion.
#3
Adjusted Score: 102261%
Critics Consensus: Encanto‘s setting and cultural perspective are new for Disney, but the end result is the same — enchanting, beautifully animated fun for the whole family.
#4
Adjusted Score: 112706%
Critics Consensus: Lights up for In the Heights, a joyous celebration of heritage and community fueled by dazzling direction and singalong songs.
#5
Adjusted Score: 111662%
Critics Consensus: Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story presents a new look at the classic musical that lives up to its beloved forebear — and in some respects might even surpass it.
#6
Adjusted Score: 92765%
Critics Consensus: Led by a winning performance from Isabela Moner, Dora and the Lost City of Gold is a family-friendly adventure that retains its source material’s youthful spirit.
#7
Adjusted Score: 119429%
Critics Consensus: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse matches bold storytelling with striking animation for a purely enjoyable adventure with heart, humor, and plenty of superhero action.
#8
Adjusted Score: 90150%
Critics Consensus: Instant Family may not quite capture the complexity of real-life adoption, but fittingly for the unconditional bond it honors, this flawed yet well-intentioned dramedy is ultimately worth the investment.
#9
Adjusted Score: 28184%
Critics Consensus: Overboard makes poor use of the ever-charming Anna Faris — and chooses questionable source material — to offer a remake that fails to clear the fairly low bar set by the original.
#10
Adjusted Score: 116647%
Critics Consensus: Coco‘s rich visual pleasures are matched by a thoughtful narrative that takes a family-friendly — and deeply affecting — approach to questions of culture, family, life, and death.
#11
Adjusted Score: 77018%
Critics Consensus: Ferdinand‘s colorful update on a classic tale doesn’t go anywhere unexpected, but its timeless themes — and John Cena’s engaging voice work in the title role — make for family-friendly fun.
#12
Adjusted Score: 10325%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#13
Adjusted Score: 85851%
Critics Consensus: Disney’s inspirational sports drama formula might be old hat, but McFarland, USA proves it still works — especially with a talented director and eminently likable star in the mix.
#14
Adjusted Score: 56661%
Critics Consensus: Spare Parts is effective enough to do in a pinch for inspirational sports drama fans – although most of them will have seen these story beats hit more powerfully before.
#15
Adjusted Score: 57354%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#16
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#17
Adjusted Score: 45948%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#18
Adjusted Score: 88484%
Critics Consensus: The Book of Life‘s gorgeous animation is a treat, but it’s a pity that its story lacks the same level of craft and detail that its thrilling visuals provide.
#19
Adjusted Score: 48072%
Critics Consensus: Cantinflas focuses on the idol instead of the man and in spite of Óscar Janeada’s padrísimo performance, this biopic feels like the GIF of what could’ve been a contender.
#20
Adjusted Score: 41676%
Critics Consensus: Too in awe of its subject’s great works to present him as a human being, Cesar Chávez settles for trite hagiography.
#21
Adjusted Score: 52922%
Critics Consensus: Like most sequels, Rio 2 takes its predecessor’s basic template and tries to make it bigger — which means it’s even busier, more colorful, and ultimately more exhausting for viewers outside the youthful target demographic.
#22
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#23
Adjusted Score: 77694%
Critics Consensus: This straightforward movie reaches great heights thanks to its colorful visual palette, catchy music, and funny vocal performances.
#24
Adjusted Score: 91782%
Critics Consensus: It isn’t deep or groundbreaking, but what it lacks in profundity, Puss in Boots more than makes up for with an abundance of wit, visual sparkle, and effervescent charm.
#25
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#26
Adjusted Score: 43053%
Critics Consensus: Although it has its charming moments, Monte Carlo is mostly silly, predictable stuff that never pushes beyond the boundaries of formula.
#27
Adjusted Score: 24687%
Critics Consensus: Burdened by a rote plot and unfunny scatological humor, All the Time in the World suggests that the Spy Kids franchise has run its course.
#28
Adjusted Score: 56392%
Critics Consensus: The performances are the strength of Nothing Like the Holidays, a rather ordinary holiday comedy with a latin twist.
#29
Adjusted Score: 75153%
Critics Consensus: If Under the Same Moon is often manipulative, it is also heartfelt, and features strong performances from its leads.
#30
Adjusted Score: 45409%
Critics Consensus: Impressive sports action sequences are the highlight, as the run-of the-mill story invokes every known sports movie cliche.
#31
Adjusted Score: 32862%
Critics Consensus: Zorro can survive a lot of things, but it looks like he can’t survive marriage.
#32
Adjusted Score: 59277%
Critics Consensus: Paz Vega shines, and Adam Sandler gives a performance of thoughtfulness and depth, but Spanglish is ultimately undermined by sitcommy plotting and unearned uplift.
#33
Adjusted Score: 49484%
Critics Consensus: The movie will be found wanting if one is not taken in by the 3-D visuals.
#34
Adjusted Score: 88541%
Critics Consensus: Real Women Have Curves, physical as well as emotional — and this coming-of-age story traces them in a vividly warm-hearted look at the Mexican-American experience.
#35
Adjusted Score: 79157%
Critics Consensus: Though the concept is no longer fresh, Spy Kids 2 is still an agreeable and energetic romp.
#36
Adjusted Score: 76042%
Critics Consensus: An English remake of Ang Lee’s Eat Drink Man Woman, Tortilla Soup is as charming and flavorful as the dishes it features.
#37
Adjusted Score: 97385%
Critics Consensus: A kinetic and fun movie that’s sure to thrill children of all ages.
#38
Adjusted Score: 52833%
Critics Consensus: Predictable story and thin characters made the movie flat.
#39
Adjusted Score: 35562%
Critics Consensus: This adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel comes off as rather flat and uninvolving. Scenes feel rushed and done in shorthand, and the romance between Damon and Cruz has no sparks.
#40
Adjusted Score: 87423%
Critics Consensus: Banderas returns as an aging Zorro in this surprisingly nimble, entertaining swashbuckler.
#41
Adjusted Score: 71527%
Critics Consensus: Selena occasionally struggles to tell its subject’s story with depth or perspective, but those flaws are rendered largely irrelevant by Jennifer Lopez in the title role.
#42
Adjusted Score: 35457%
Critics Consensus: Only Fools Rush In to see a basic romantic comedy where opposites try to attract and find an unlikely happy ending.
#43
Adjusted Score: 47385%
Critics Consensus: A Walk in the Clouds aims for sweeping period romance, but quickly unravels thanks to a miscast leading man and a story that relies on cheap melodrama.
#44
Adjusted Score: 95148%
Critics Consensus: Stand and Deliver pulls off the unlikely feat of making math class the stuff of underdog drama — and pays rousing tribute to a real-life inspirational figure in the bargain.
#45
Adjusted Score: 90076%
Critics Consensus: Elevated by a perceptive performance by a perfectly cast Lou Diamond Phillips, La Bamba distills its subject’s creative energy — and reflects his music’s enduring appeal.
#46
Adjusted Score: 106214%
Critics Consensus: Buoyed by Robert Wise’s dazzling direction, Leonard Bernstein’s score, and Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics, West Side Story remains perhaps the most iconic of all the Shakespeare adaptations to visit the big screen.