The 15 Best Latinx Movies on Netflix to Stream Right Now
Watch Latinx stars shine in these top-rated films with captivating storylines and compelling characters.
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Drama, action, comedy — you name the movie genre, and we'll find a superb Latinx movie on Netflix that you should add to your watchlist immediately. Apart from Netflix offering the best Spanish-language shows and movies, the streamer also has a library full of films the whole family can enjoy this Hispanic Heritage Month and well beyond. Whether you’re looking for a romance (Resort to Love) or an action thriller (Acts of Vengeance), these films feature famous Hispanic people and Latinx stars, including Sofía Vergara, Antonio Banderas and Gina Rodriguez. We also have classics like Miss Congeniality and award-winning flicks like I Care a Lot on this list, so really you can't go wrong. Now, it’s time to get watching!
Look Both Ways
Danny Ramirez stars opposite Lili Reinhart in the coming-of-age romantic comedy. The actor of Colombian and Mexican descent plays Gabe. After becoming involved with Lili's character Natalie, the two college seniors must figure out what to do when she becomes pregnant. Fresh out of college, Natalie and Gabe navigate their first jobs, family drama and being young parents. But he isn't the only guy in her life.
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Do Revenge
Loosely inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 psychological thriller Strangers on a Train, this Netflix dark comedy begins with Drea (Camila Mendes) becoming an outcast when an inappropriate video of her surfaces. But the summer before her senior year of high school she devises a plan. She teams up with fellow outcast Eleanor (Maya Hawke) to get revenge for each other.
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Resort to Love
One year later, Erica (Christina Milian) is still recovering from a broken heart after her engagement gets called off. When she hears about a singing job at a luxury resort, she decides to take the plunge. But she quickly finds out that her ex-fiancé is having his wedding there. Although feelings still exist, Erica starts toying with the idea that there's a better fit for her.
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Acts of Vengeance
Antonio Banderas plays fast-talking lawyer and family man Frank Valera in this 2017 action thriller. His life is forever changed when his wife (Cristina Serafini) and daughter (Lillian Blankenship) are murdered. After dealing with intense guilt for not being by their sides, Frank decides to take a vow of silence until the case is solved. In the meantime, he learns self-defense skills and finds clues of his own.
Someone Great
Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez gives an energizing performance playing music journalist Jenny. After she lands her dream job with Rolling Stone in California, Jenny's boyfriend of nine years (Lakeith Stanfield) breaks up with her. In an attempt to celebrate the next chapter of her life, she spends her last days in New York City with her best friends. But Jenny is also determined to get closure in whatever way she can.
Miss Congeniality
Whether you remember watching the Sandra Bullock-led rom-com when it first debuted in 2000 or you're only just discovering it, the movie's storyline is still a classic more than two decades later. Sandra's character Gracie undergoes the ultimate makeover for an FBI case and she has her co-worker Eric (Benjamin Bratt) in her ear along the way.
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Awake
In Gina Rodriguez's latest work, she plays Jill Adams, a U.S. Army veteran and mother of two. She goes to lengths to protect her daughter and son when the world's population can no longer fall asleep. Billions begin suffering from sleep deprivation, including Jill and Noah (Lucius Hoyos). But in a twist of events, Matilda (Ariana Greenblatt) can sleep and she's immediately targeted as a way to find a cure.
Puerto Ricans in Paris
Puerto-Rican actor Luis Guzmán portrays an NYPD detective who's hired by a famous Parisian fashion designer (Alice Taglioni) to retrieve her stolen couture purse designs. He says goodbye to his longtime girlfriend (Rosario Dawson) and heads off to Paris with his partner, Eddie (Edgar Garcia). In the City of Lights, they discover the truth and also make time to have some fun.
Battle: Los Angeles
Michael Peña, Michelle Rodriguez and Ramon Rodriguez portray an improvised platoon of U.S. Marines who are on a mission to protect humankind against aliens. Led by a resourceful staff sergeant, the group face the otherworldly challenge with grit and courage. As the war goes on though, it's revealed that the soldiers aren't complete strangers.
Falling Inn Love
Motivated by a breakup and her design firm folding all in the same week, Christina Milian's character Gabriela Diaz moves from San Francisco to New Zealand to renovate an inn she won through an online contest. When getting to the countryside, she teams up with restoration expert Jake Taylor (Adam Demos) and the two end up falling in love. But when a blast from her past shows up at her door, things get complicated.
Wild Card
Based on William Goldman's novel Heat, Sofía Vergara joins a stellar cast including Jason Statham, Milo Ventimiglia and Stanley Tucci among others. Though the America's Got Talent judge's role is minor, her character kicks off the action thriller with a heart-pumping scene in a bar. The movie follows Nick (Statham), a man recovering from a gambling addiction who gets involved in a brutal crime case, mob drama and more.
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I Care a Lot
Mexican actress Eiza González stars as Fran, the girlfriend and business partner of con artist Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike). Together the two deceive vulnerable elderly people into giving them their homes and assets before placing them in assisted living facilities against their will. Everything appears to be going according to plan until Fran and Marla encounter a woman whose son won't let her go without a fight.
All Together Now
Based on Matthew Quick's 2011 novel Sorta Like a Rock Star, this drama follows high school student Amber Appleton (Auliʻi Cravalho) who aspires to go to Carnegie Mellon University like her late father. Unbeknownst to her classmates, she's experiencing homelessness with her mom, played by One Day at a Time star Justina Machado. But even when she's left on her own, Amber forges ahead to make her dreams come true.
Feel the Beat
Sofia Carson portrays April, a young aspiring dancer trying to make it in New York City. Unfortunately, a public incident forces her to retreat back home to Wisconsin where she's offered to be coach of the New Hope dance team. While she initially accepts the opportunity as a last ditch effort to save her career, the group of young dancers show her that there's more to life than stardom.
Vampires vs. The Bronx
Set in the Bronx, New York City, the comedy horror opens with a vampire killing salon owner Becky (Zoe Saldana). In the same neighborhood, Miguel Martinez (Jaden Michael) is organizing a block party to save a local bodega. His friends, Bobby Carter (Gerald W. Jones III) and Luis Acosta (Gregory Diaz IV), understand his growing concern about gentrification, but they have other problems when they encounter the vampires. The trio watches the 1998 classic Blade and starts coming up with a plan of attack.
Selena is the entertainment and news editor for Good Housekeeping, where she covers the latest on TV, movies and celebrities. In addition to writing and editing entertainment news, she also spotlights the Hispanic and Latinx community through her work. She is a graduate of CUNY Hunter College with a B.A. in journalism and creative writing.
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