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Price of Glory (2000)
Character: Mrs. Cruz
An ex-boxer, living with the knowledge that his fight career was cut short by a crooked manager, channels his bitter disappointment in a single-minded quest for boxing championships for his three sons. We see them in pee-wee Silver Glove matches with dad constantly pushing them. Ten years later, they're young men, with dad as both father and manager. A professional promoter, Nick Everson, wants to sign the boys, but dad rejects those offers. Then, in expressions of their varied relationships with their father, each son makes his own decisions. Can dad ever step aside, and can the family hold together?
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Driven (1998)
Character: "Juanita's" Wife
Set in the callous streets of L.A., a group of sleep deprived cab drivers are changed forever by the arrival of a mysterious new cabbie and the events of one incredible week.
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The Wall of Flesh (1968)
Character: Miss Kidd
Anthropologist Laurie suggests her frigid friend Vera get sex therapy which opens up the floodgates when multiple women (including the anthropologist's sister and a sex therapist) find themselves drawn to the husband.
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Maricela (1986)
Character: Eugenia Flores
Maricela and her mother Eugenia have fled El Salvador for the US with hopes of building a better life. Unable to find work in her profession as a school teacher, Eugenia becomes a live-in housekeeper to the affluent Gannett family. Conflict occurs when Maricela clashes with teenage Stacy Gannett, who resents her presence at home and at school. Can Maricela win Stacy's friendship and still remain true to her own ideals and values?
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The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)
Character: Spanish Soap Opera Actress
After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warms the hearts of Americans, and captures the attention of a group of people who want to take over the world. This evil group plots to kidnap Pat and perform experiments on her so that they can eventually shrink everyone.
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Deep Inside (1967)
Character: Joy
Previously lost sexploitation melodrama following Millicent Redmond, a woman who hosts annual raucous and sexually licentious reunion parties for her former sorority sisters and their lovers at her cushy beach house.
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Unspeakable (2003)
Character: Mowatt's Mother
Despite vocal objections from Warden Blakely, prison psychologist Diana Purlow journeys deep inside the mind of serial killer Jesse Mowat in a desperate attempt to reveal the source of his psychotic tendencies.
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East Side Story (2006)
Character: Sara Campos
Diego is a gay but closeted Hispanic chef living in East Los Angeles who works in the restaurant operated by his grandmother. Frustrated by the secretive lifestyle he shares with his similarly closeted lover, Pablo, Diego finds himself attracted to Wesley, one of the openly gay Caucasian men he feels are gentrifying his neighborhood. Their relationship pushes Diego to consider the possibility of a life he had never imagined.
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Walk Proud (1979)
Character: Mrs. Mendez
Emilio Mendez is a 17-year-old Chicano man in California comes to realize that the gang life is not what he really wants but doesn't know how to get out. Robby Benson plays a young gang member in Los Angeles who begins to question himself when Mendez meets and starts to fall for a White girl who encourages him to try and leave. Emilio, with great pride in his Native Mexican heritage, suffers a further identity crisis upon meeting his father, a European-American who got his Brown mother pregnant when she was just 16.
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Come Ride the Wild Pink Horse (1967)
Character: N/A
Jennifer Weller, though satisfied with her marriage to Eddie, finds her role as a suburban housewife oppressive and begins to accompany Marian Harris, a restless neighbour, on jaunts into the city.
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Anything for Money (1967)
Character: Pam
Scheming Judy and her affable husband Jack move back east and shack up temporarily with her staid Aunt Edna. Edna's reclusive, auto-erotic roommate and business associate, Louise, takes an immediate dislike to them.
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The Sex Cycle (1967)
Character: Tanya
The Cocoa Poodle bar is the central meeting place for the denizens of a bohemian suburban area. Janet, a rather colorless model, is jealous of her artist/mentor Tanya, who attracts the attention of all the local guys. An exotic card-reader offers her a pair of earrings which will give her power over others. She soon becomes the center of attention, but commits a fatal error.
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