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The Crash of Flight 401 (1978)
Character: Osario
True story recounting the crash of Eastern Airlines, Flight 401, which crashed in the Everglades while on approach to Miami in December 1972. Accurate in many respects, the movie goes through the events leading up to the crash, the crash itself, and the rescue effort afterwards.
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Memories Never Die (1982)
Character: Dr. Larry Quintero
When her husband becomes ill with heart problems, Joanne Tilford reluctantly returns to her family after a six-year stay in a mental institution. Her children are strangers to her and the woman who has been raising them is hostile to Joanne's presence.
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Crime of Crimes (1989)
Character: Paco Mendoza
A Latino family new to Los Angeles find itself in trouble when the husband is arrested for a murder he didn't commit. His pregnant wife winds up in the hospital, and his little daughter is kidnapped by a child molester.
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Frankie & Hazel (2000)
Character: Antonio Perez
Actress JoBeth Williams directed this Showtime family feature starring The Sixth Sense's Mischa Barton for Barbra Streisand's Barwood Films. Barton is Frankie and Ingrid Uribe is Hazel, Frankie's neighbor and best friend. Frankie is an orphan who lives with her imperious grandmother, Phoebe (Joan Plowright), while Hazel lives with her father and older brother. Frankie's mother was a prima ballerina--killed in a car crash along with her father--and Frankie's been following in her toe shoes ever since. Although she's the best dancer in her class, she'd rather play baseball, whereas Hazel's a local activist who'd rather be mayor. The story strains credibility when 13-year-old Hazel runs for office against the middle-aged incumbent, but Frankie's goal is more understandable, and both actresses make their characters sympathetic and believable. It's as hard not to like them as it is not to root for them to succeed.
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Frankie & Hazel (2000)
Character: Carlos Perez
Actress JoBeth Williams directed this Showtime family feature starring The Sixth Sense's Mischa Barton for Barbra Streisand's Barwood Films. Barton is Frankie and Ingrid Uribe is Hazel, Frankie's neighbor and best friend. Frankie is an orphan who lives with her imperious grandmother, Phoebe (Joan Plowright), while Hazel lives with her father and older brother. Frankie's mother was a prima ballerina--killed in a car crash along with her father--and Frankie's been following in her toe shoes ever since. Although she's the best dancer in her class, she'd rather play baseball, whereas Hazel's a local activist who'd rather be mayor. The story strains credibility when 13-year-old Hazel runs for office against the middle-aged incumbent, but Frankie's goal is more understandable, and both actresses make their characters sympathetic and believable. It's as hard not to like them as it is not to root for them to succeed.
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Meet Me in Miami (2005)
Character: Julio
Luis, a handsome heir to a hotel fortune, decides to risk everything to pursue his first love, Julia. Ten years earlier, at a wishing well in Miami, young Julia promised a young Luis that someday she would come back, but she never did.
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Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland (1993)
Character: Captain Deluna
Based on the actual events of the 1991 brush fires that swept across Northern California, which left countless people without homes. A rookie fire chief, who just started his new job, must deal with the raging fires.
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Hoodwinked (1989)
Character: Ben Nunez
Burnt-out private dick Jacob Aloysius Spanner teams up with his brother to help an old adversary track down his one remaining loved one, his kidnapped granddaughter. But who's the hood and who's being hoodwinked?
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Shark Kill (1976)
Character: Cabo Mendoza
Two adventurers set sail to find a giant man-eating great white shark.
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The Hunted Lady (1977)
Character: David Todd
An undercover policewoman finds herself framed for murder. Forced to flee for her life, she determines to clear her name and bring the real killers to justice.
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The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988)
Character: Roberto Echevarria
A renegade team of World War II soldiers. This time, one of the 12 is a woman and, with a Nazi spy within their midst, they're up against German wartime geniuses out to establish a Fourth Reich.
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Tribes (1970)
Character: Sanchez
A Marine Corps drill instructor who is disgusted by the fact that the Corps now accepts draftees finds himself pitted against a hippie who has been drafted but refuses to accept the military's way of doing things.
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Carmen: A Hip Hopera (2001)
Character: Dick
An engaged Philadelphia policeman falls in love with a beautiful woman while dealing with a corrupt superior.
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Fireball Forward (1972)
Character: Capt. Tony Sanchez
A hard-nose general takes over a division with a bad combat record.
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Cancel My Reservation (1972)
Character: Motorcyclist
Bob Hope is a stressed out talk show host who is sent on a vacation to Arizona on doctor's orders and has to play Sherlock Holmes with his wife, the lovely Eva Marie Saint, to solve a series of murders that has Bob as the prime suspect.
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What's Cooking? (2000)
Character: Robert Avila
Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner.
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Raíces de sangre (1979)
Character: Carlos Rivera
A deadly riot breaks out after unfair labor practices at a garment factory raises tensions between Mexican and Chicano workers.
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Boulevard Nights (1979)
Character: Raymond Avila
Raymond Avila is an ex-gang member trying to build a future. His kid brother Chuco is a sullen low-rider still caught up in the life. Despite their differences, their family bond is strong. But that bond is violently tested when rivals challenge Chuco's gang and ignite a neighborhood war.
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Rio Diablo (1993)
Character: Chuy
Kenny Roger's leaves his good-guy image behind as the rugged, gutsy Quentin Leach, a bounty hunter with a quick temper and a trigger finger to match. If you're an outlaw with a price on your head, Leach is the last man you'll want to meet. Travis Tritt, in an impressive acting debut, stars as Benjamin Tabor, a man out for blood after a gang of murderous bank robbers flee with his beautiful young bride. Together, Tabor and Leach take to the Trail with guns blazing in search of the same outlaws. And they're not going to stop until they find them - dead or alive.
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I Can Make You Love Me (1993)
Character: Lt. Grijalva
A beautiful young computer technician starting off her career in Silicon Valley during the Eighties, is stalked and harassed by a nerdy, dangerous and mentally-unstable colleague with a twisted obsession.
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Houston: The Legend of Texas (1986)
Character: Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Sam Elliot stars as Sam Houston, the visionary who nearly single-handedly forged the state of Texas into a powerful entity in its own right. Refusing to forget the Alamo (as if anyone could), Houston led the military in Texas' rebellion against Mexico. G.D. Spradlin co-stars as President Andrew Jackson, with Michael Beck appearing as Jim Bowie, James Stephens as Stephen Austin, and Richard Yniguez as Mexican General Santa Anna. Lensed on location in the Lone Star state, this sweeping made-for-TV film originally occupied three hours' screen time on November 22, 1986. Its title at that time was Houston: The Legend of Texas. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Man on a String (1972)
Character: Officer Jack
A government agent, out to destroy a crime ring, finds himself in the middle of a mob war.
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The Deadly Tower (1975)
Character: Ramiro Martinez
The real-life story of Charles Whitman's deadly shooting spree at the University of Texas is retold. In August 1966, after killing his wife and mother, Whitman climbed to the top of the school's tower and opened fire on passers-by, killing 13 and wounding many others.
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B-Girl (2009)
Character: Father Rivera
A young female breakdancer, Angel, moves to Los Angeles after an attack by an ex-boyfriend nearly ends her dance career forever. B-Girl follows Angel through recovery and acceptance of a new life as she busts a move into the male-centric world of underground hip hop.
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Zandy's Bride (1974)
Character: Tao Ramirez (uncredited)
Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they struggle to survive develops in him a growing love.
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