Elizabeth Peña Movies

A Single Woman is a distinct, lively portrait of Jeannette Rankin (the first American woman elected to Congress; also a suffragist, peace activist...

Based on a New York Times article depicting a single dramatic day in the life of a Latina gang leader in South Central L.A.

The story of a macho straight and a well-educated gay man who have to share an apartment at a half-way house for aids-patients. Slowly they become...

Kathleen Turner stars as suburban mother and devout Catholic Eileen Cleary, who has always kept up appearances. When she runs for the Catholic Woman...

A Mexican immigrant new to Los Angeles enters into a love triangle with two very different women.

When her practical joker boyfriend dies, a young woman recalls all the pranks he pulled as she tries to figure out who murdered him.

Based on the real story of Clara Harris, the Houston, Texas dentist who made headlines in July 2002 when she killed her adulterous husband by...

Two young women bond while living together out in the California desert to be close to their boyfriends who are serving time at the nearby state...

Cleveland 'Stack' Stackhouse is a guard with the Texas Correctional Youth Authority who witnesses the cycle of destructive choices and racial...

Fact-based story about a 90's espionage case that was chronicled as the worst case of espionage in US history

Rodrigo Garcia's Ten Tiny Love Stories follows the stories of ten women with very different emotional and psychological experiences across ten...

Allison Westlin, a Los Angeles-based immigration lawyer and single mother, investigates a murder with the help of private detective Mario Sparks and...

Though approaching his eighties, Max Kohn shows no signs of slowing down. He pursues his love life - both real and imagined - with youthful vigor,...

February, 1978. Roberto and Aurelia are Cuban exiles living in New York City with their 17-year-old daughter. For ten years Roberto's been the super...

A young couple embark on a cross-country journey, only to run into trouble at the Texas/Mexico border.

Three generations of women in a Mexican American family experience sexual awakenings over the course of a summer.

Aliens crashland near a small desert town, strewing odd bluish-glowing rocks throughout the area. Townfolk notice something is amiss when...

An increasingly obsessed detective chases an escaped rapist across the Southwest and enters into a complicated relationship with one of the victims.

Salsa singer screws over everybody on his way to the top; when his latest record flops, his career starts doing downhill.

An overview of the making of the film Jacob's Ladder (1990).