10 Movies Starring Cheech Marin

Still Smokin

Still Smokin

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1983-05-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.6 (5816 Reviews)

Director:

Tommy Chong

Genres:

ComedyMusic

Fullplot:

Cheech & Chong are invited to a celebrity party/festival in Amsterdam. When they get there, however, it turns out that the guy who invited them has taken off with all the money, and the rest of the hosts have a VERY limited budget. They are actually expecting Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton, so our heroes gets to be Mr. Burt and Mr. Dolly. We follow them around Amsterdam, at their hotel, (still) smokin' joints and doing shows.

Born in East L.A.

Born in East L.A.

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1987-08-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

85 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (4201 Reviews)

Director:

Cheech Marin

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

Rudy is an American of Mexican descent who is caught up in an immigration raid on a factory. Deported to Mexico as an undocumented immigrant, he has no way of proving that he is in fact an American citizen, and is forced to rely on his cunning to sneak his way back home.

Oliver & Company

Oliver & Company

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-11-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

74 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (29523 Reviews)

Director:

George Scribner

Cast:

Writer:

Jim Cox (screenplay)

Tim Disney (screenplay)

James Mangold (screenplay)

Vance Gerry (story)

Mike Gabriel (story)

Joe Ranft (story)

Jim Mitchell (story)

Chris Bailey (story)

Kirk Wise (story)

David Michener (story)

Roger Allers (story)

Gary Trousdale (story)

Kevin Lima (story)

Michael Cedeno (story)

Peter Young (story)

Leon Joosen (story)

Gerrit Graham (additional story material)

Sam Graham (additional story material)

Chris Hubbell (additional story material)

Steve Hulett (additional story material)

Danny Mann (additional story material)

Charles Dickens (novel)

Fullplot:

Inspired by Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist". A homeless kitten named Oliver, roams the streets of New York, where he is taken in by a gang of homeless mutts who survive by stealing from others. During one of these criminal acts, Oliver meets a wealthy young girl named Jenny Foxworth. This meeting will forever change his life.

Desperado

Desperado

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-08-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (127966 Reviews)

Fullplot:

With this sequel to his prize-winning independent previous film, "El Mariachi," director Robert Rodriquez joins the ranks of Sam Peckinpah and John Woo as a master of slick, glamorized ultra-violence. We pick up the story as a continuation of "El Mariachi," where an itinerant musician, looking for work, gets mistaken for a hitman and thereby entangled in a web of love, corruption, and death. This time, he is out to avenge the murder of his lover and the maiming of his fretting hand, which occurred at the end of the earlier movie. However, the plot is recapitulated, and again, a case of mistaken identity leads to a very high body count, involvement with a beautiful woman who works for the local drug lord, and finally, the inevitable face-to-face confrontation and bloody showdown.

Tin Cup

Tin Cup

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-08-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

135 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (35489 Reviews)

Director:

Ron Shelton

Cast:

Writer:

John Norville

Ron Shelton

Fullplot:

Roy 'Tin cup' McAvoy, a failed pro golfer who lives at the run-down driving range which he manages with his sidekick and caddy Romeo in the West Texas tin pot town of Salome, ends up signing over ownership to a madam of 'show girls' to pay off debts. His foxy novice golf pupil, female psychiatrist Dr. Molly Griswold, turns out to be the new girlfriend of McAvoy's sarcastic one-time college golf partner, slick PGA superstar David Simms, who drops by to play into Roy's fatal flaw: the inability to resist a dare, all too often causing him to lose against lesser players, in this case gambling away his car. Falling for Molly, Roy decides to become her patient; in order to earn her respect, he decides to try to qualify for the US Open, after starting off as Simm's caddy 'for the benefit of his experience'. His talent proves more then adequate, but over-confident negligence of risks, while pleasing the crowds, is murder on his scores, while Simms spits on the fans but never wastes a point...

Paulie

Paulie

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-04-17

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (10983 Reviews)

Director:

John Roberts

Fullplot:

Paulie, an intelligent parrot who actually talks, relates the story of his struggle to a Russian immigrant who works as a janitor at the research institute where he is housed and neglected. Paulies story begins many years earlier when he is given as a gift to a little girl who stutters. Eventually, he teaches the girl to speak correctly but is taken away by her father because he believes the girl cannot distinguish fantasy from reality because she believes the bird can talk. Paulie goes through a series of adventures with a pawn shop owner, an ageing widow, a Mexican-American troubadour and a would be thief before being taken to the institute where he now lives.

Luminarias

Luminarias

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-05-05

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

3.6 (514 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Evelina Fernèndez (play)

Evelina Fernèndez (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Welcome to Luminarias-where hot spicy dish gets served up with a Latin twist by four successful friends from East LA...with very discriminating taste in men! When separated divorce attorney Andrea finds herself guilty of falling for her white and Jewish opposing council, her three single friends choose sides in the ongoing and often hilarious debate over race and sex. As they discover just how much negative stereotypes color their relationships with men-and even with each other-it becomes clear that the search for Mr. Right is not exactly black and white!

Paulie

Paulie

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-04-17

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (11009 Reviews)

Director:

John Roberts

Fullplot:

Paulie, an intelligent parrot who actually talks, relates the story of his struggle to a Russian immigrant who works as a janitor at the research institute where he is housed and neglected. Paulies story begins many years earlier when he is given as a gift to a little girl who stutters. Eventually, he teaches the girl to speak correctly but is taken away by her father because he believes the girl cannot distinguish fantasy from reality because she believes the bird can talk. Paulie goes through a series of adventures with a pawn shop owner, an ageing widow, a Mexican-American troubadour and a would be thief before being taken to the institute where he now lives.

Picking Up the Pieces

Picking Up the Pieces

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-08-30

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

4.7 (2946 Reviews)

Director:

Alfonso Arau

Fullplot:

Woody Allen plays Tex, a kosher butcher. Sharon Stone plays his unfaithful wife Candy. Tex catches Candy in the act and in a fit of rage he kills her. To conceal his crime he cuts up her body and buries it in the desert in New Mexico. However, when her hand surfaces, a blind woman trips over it and it restores her sight. The hand is then considered to be the "hand of the Virgin." Despite the church's fallen priest objecting, the ambitious mayor of the town creates an international three-ring circus of miracle-seekers, TV crews, and born-again local prostitutes all interested in the hand. All of this goes on while Tex is desperately trying to recover the hand before the sheriff finds it and uses it as evidence against him.

Pure Country 2: The Gift

Pure Country 2: The Gift

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-10-15

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

4.9 (524 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Three angels bestow the gift of song to a young girl, who must follow a series of rules in order hold on to it during her rise to fame and fortune.

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