List of the best Gregory Nava movies: My Family/Mi Familia(1995), Why Do Fools Fall in Love(1998), A Time of Destiny(1988) ... ...
Drama, History
USA
1995
128 Minutes
Director
Jimmy Smits Esai Morales Eduardo López Rojas Jenny Gago Elpidia Carrillo Lupe Ontiveros Jacob Vargas Jennifer Lopez Maria Canals-Barrera Leon Singer Michael DeLorenzo
father refugee mother police officer immigrant moving dense los angeles family immigration america race relations growing up underdog love 20th century
A man makes his way from Mexico to L.A. in the 1920s, gets married and raises a big family there. The movie follows the children until they, too, get married and have children in the 1960s.
Biography
USA
1998
115 Minutes
Director
Halle Berry Vivica A. Fox Lela Rochon Larenz Tate Paul Mazursky Pamela Reed Alexis Cruz David Barry Gray Miguel Nunez Clifton Powell Lane Smith
little richard schoolteacher wife singer heroin addict prostitute melodramatic engaging fascinating courtroom new york city stage family home street office frankie lymon music industry drug addiction inheritance court battles
Three women each claim to be the widow of 1950s doo-wop singer Frankie Lymon, claiming legal rights to his estate.
Drama
USA|Yugoslavia
1988
118 Minutes
Director
William Hurt Timothy Hutton Melissa Leo Stockard Channing Megan Follows Francisco Rabal
A modernized version of the story which inspired Verdi's opera, "La Forza del Destino".