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Blade Runner

Blade Runner (1982) more movies like this

directed by Ridley Scott
featuring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah

A blend of science fiction and noir detective fiction, Blade Runner (1982) was a box office and critical bust upon its initial exhibition, but its unique postmodern production design became hugely influential within the sci-fi genre, and the film gained a significant cult following that increased its stature. Harrison Ford stars as Rick Deckard, a ...

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In the Time of the Butterflies

In the Time of the Butterflies (2000) more movies like this

directed by Mariano Barroso
featuring Salma Hayek, Marc Anthony, Edward James Olmos

Based on the book by Julia Alvarez, this fact-based drama tells the story of a woman who, along with her family, found the courage to defy a corrupt dictator -- and paid a fearful price for their actions. Minerva Mirabal (Salma Hayek) and her sisters Patria (Lumi Cavazos), Mate (Mia Maestro), and Dede (Pilar Padilla) are the daughters of Enrique ...

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My Family

My Family (1995) more movies like this

directed by Gregory Nava
featuring Eduardo Lopez Rojas, Edward James Olmos, Elpidia Carrillo, Esai Morales, Jacob Vargas, Jenny Gago, Jimmy Smits

Featuring Jennifer Lopez in her first major big-screen role, Gregory Nava's My Family traces three generations of the Sanchez's, a Mexican-American family living in East Los Angeles. Beginning in the 1930s, the film outlines the struggles faced by Jose (Jacob Vargas) and Maria (Lopez) as a recently immigrated married couple raising a family. As ...

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Stand and Deliver

Stand and Deliver (1988) more movies like this

directed by Ramon Menendez
featuring Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips, Rosanna de Soto, Andy Garcia, Will Gotay

Edward James Olmos portrays the real-life Jaime Escalante, a no-nonsense mathematic teacher in a tough East LA high school. Handed a classroom full of "losers" and "unteachables," Escalante is determined to turn his young charges' lives around. Drawing from his own cultural heritage, Escalante forms a bond with his largely Hispanic student body, ...

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The Road to El Dorado

The Road to El Dorado (2000) more movies like this

directed by Bibo Bergeron, Don Paul
featuring Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Rosie Perez, Armand Assante, Edward James Olmos

Dreamworks SKG's second feature-length animated film blends comedy and drama in an unusual historical adventure. Two genial swindlers working as stable hands stow away with Cortez, the legendary Spanish conquistador, as he searches for El Dorado, the lost City of Gold. Luck smiles on the two con men, and they happen to find a settlement in Mexico ...

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Selena

Selena (1997) more movies like this

directed by Gregory Nava
featuring Jennifer Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Rebecca Lee Meza, Jon Seda, Constance Marie, Jacob Vargas

Selena Quintanilla was a major figure in Tejano music, a Grammy-winning recording artist, a beloved star in the American Southwest and Mexico, and seemed poised to cross over into mainstream popularity on the U.S. pop charts when she was murdered on March 31, 1995 by the president of her fan club. Written and directed by Gregory Nava, this biopic ...

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American Me

American Me (1992) more movies like this

directed by Edward James Olmos
featuring Edward James Olmos, William Forsythe, Pepe Serna, Danny De La Paz, Evelina Fernandez

Edward J. Olmos made his directorial bow with the powerhouse crime saga American Me. Olmos stars as street-gang leader Santana, who during his 18 years in Folsom Prison rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana goes back to his old neighborhood, intending to lead a peaceful, crime-free life. But his old ...

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Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica (2003) more movies like this

directed by Michael Rymer
featuring James Callis, Jamie Bamber, Katee Sackhoff, Mary McDonnell, Edward James Olmos

One of the most popular television series of the late '70s science fiction boom gets a new look for the new millennium in remake, created as a made-for-cable miniseries. Four decades after the Cylon Wars, the Cylon robots (some of whom have since assumed human form) have launched a vicious nuclear attack, leaving only a few Colonial forces to lead ...

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The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Gordon
featuring Joe Mantegna, Esai Morales, Edward James Olmos, Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez, Gregory Sierra

Fantasist Ray Bradbury wrote the screenplay for this adaptation of his 1957 Saturday Evening Post short story, "The Magic White Suit," previously adapted as a TV drama, a stage musical, and a play. Middle-aged Gomez (Joe Mantegna) hopes to own the beautiful white suit he spots in a store window. Since he can't afford it, he locates four same-size ...

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Death in Granada

Death in Granada (1997) more movies like this

directed by Marcos Zúriñaga
featuring Andy Garcia, Esai Morales, Edward James Olmos, Jeroen Krabbé, Marcela Walerstein

Drawing its basic story from author Ian Gibson's investigation into the real-life murder of Andalusian poet Federico Garcia Lorca at the dawn of the Spanish Civil War, this English-language thriller begins in 1935 as exiled Spanish journalist Ricardo and his family resettle in Puerto Rico. For most of his life Ricardo has been obsessed with the ...

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Youngest Godfather (1999) more movies like this

directed by Michel Poulette
featuring Martin Landau, Costas Mandylor, Edward James Olmos, Robert Loggia, Bruce Ramsay, Tony Nardi

This made-for-TV drama is based on the autobiography of one of the most notorious figures in American organized crime, Joseph Bonanno. Bonanno (played by Bruce Ramsay) left Sicily as a young man, eager to escape the tyranny of Benito Mussolini, but when he arrived in America, fate led him to a career on the wrong side of the law with the ...

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Wolfen (1981) more movies like this

directed by Michael Wadleigh
featuring Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Edward James Olmos, Gregory Hines, Tom Noonan

Wolfen, a frightening horror movie based upon a novel by Whitley Strieber, is an absorbing update on the werewolf legend. Detective Dewey Wilson (Albert Finney) is assigned to investigate the strange murder of a millionaire and his wife in a downtown park. Wilson and his friend, city coroner Whittington (Gregory Hines), aided by criminal ...

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Triumph of the Spirit (1989) more movies like this

directed by Robert M. Young
featuring Willem Dafoe, Edward James Olmos, Robert Loggia, Wendy Gazelle, Kelly Wolf

Triumph of the Spirit is the true story of Salamo Arouch, a Greek-Jewish boxer imprisoned in Auschwitz during World War II. Arrested while attempting to help his family and friends escape the Nazi juggernaut, Arouch (Dafoe) is slated for extermination. He manages to survive--and to serve as an inspiration for his fellow inmates--by literally ...

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Zoot Suit (1981) more movies like this

directed by Luis Valdez
featuring Daniel Valdez, Edward James Olmos, Charles Aidman, Tyne Daly, John Anderson

Based on a 1940s Los Angeles murder trial, this film follows the case of members of a Mexican-American gang, led by Henry Reyna (Daniel Valdez), as they are tried and sentenced to San Quentin for a murder they may not have committed. Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide

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Talent for the Game (1991) more movies like this

directed by Robert M. Young
featuring Edward James Olmos, Lorraine Bracco, Jamey Sheridan, Terry Kinney, Jeff Corbett

Sammy Bodean is the newest, most promising recruit according to the advertisement of the California Angels--and has to prove it come game time. Following the team's sale to young business whiz Gil Lawrence (Terry Kinney), ex-player Virgil Sweet (Edward James Olmos) has to prove himself as the team's talent scout to keep his job. Via a car break ...

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The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1983) more movies like this

directed by Robert M. Young
featuring Edward James Olmos, Tom Bower, James Gammon, Brion James, Bruce McGill

There was a genuine ballad behind The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, based on a real-life character. Cortez, a San Antonio cowpoke, was arrested in 1901 because he resembled the actual criminal. Unable to speak English, Cortez fights off the authorities, inadvertently killing a sheriff in the process. His subsequent life and death as a fugitive from ...

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Splinter (2006) more movies like this

directed by Michael D. Olmos
featuring Enrique Almeida, Tom Sizemore, Edward James Olmos, Resmine Atis, Noel Gugliemi

Edward James Olmos turns in a supporting performance in this thriller, the feature debut from his son Michael D. Olmos. Enrique Almeida stars as Dreamer, a young man whose memory was severely inhibited in a gang attack that left his older brother dead. Bent on revenge, Dreamer sets out in search of the killers, but soon finds himself in the middle ...

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Hollywood Confidential (1997) more movies like this

directed by Reynaldo Villalobos
featuring Edward James Olmos

In this drama, a band of law-enforcement agents specialize in suppressing potential scandals involving important Tinseltown celebrities. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Roosters (1993) more movies like this

directed by Robert M. Young
featuring Edward James Olmos, Sonia Braga, Maria Conchita Alonso, Danny Nucci, Sarah Lassez

Milcha Sanchez-Scott adapted her own play for this moving and poetic tale of family obsessions directed by Robert M. Young. Edward James Olmos stars as Gallo, the macho head of the Morales family. He has been in prison for the last seven years for murdering a man over a cockfight, but now he is returning home to his family -- his wife Juana (Sonia ...

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The Judge (2001) more movies like this

directed by Mick Garris
featuring Edward James Olmos, Chris Noth

Based on the 1996 novel by Steve Martini, this two-part TV miniseries stars Edward James Olmos as by-the-book Judge Armando Acosta, who regards both criminals and cops with equal disdain. During Acosta's investigation of police corruption, the Judge is framed for soliciting a prostitute -- who is subsequently murdered. Thus it is that Acosta finds ...

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The Wall (1998) more movies like this

directed by Joseph Sargent
featuring Edward James Olmos, Ruby Dee, Savion Glover

At the shiny black length of the Vietnam wall, visitors come to pay respects and often leave behind mementos. This drama looks at the moving stories behinds three such tiny tributes. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Caught (1996) more movies like this

directed by Robert M. Young
featuring Edward James Olmos, Maria Conchita Alonso, Arie Verveen, Bitty Schram, Steven Schub

Love, lust, loyalty, and betrayal are the themes of this tense adult drama. Joe (Edward James Olmos) and Betty (Maria Conchita Alonso) are a married couple living in Jersey City; Joe runs a fish market, and Betty wishes that Joe showed as much interest in her as he does in his business, since she feels the spark has died in their relationship. ...

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Battlestar Galactica: Season 01 (2004) more movies like this

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Miami Vice: Season 04 (1987) more movies like this

Season Four of Miami Vice marks the first of several appearances by singer Sheena Easton in the role of recording star Caitlin Davies, with whom Dade County undercover vice cop Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) falls in love in the episode "Like a Hurricane"--and to whom he is abruptly wed in the very next episode "Rising Sun of Death." This star ...

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Miami Vice: Season 05 (1988) more movies like this

The fifth and final season of the ultrahip crime series Miami Vice opens with a 2-parter resolving the incredible cliffhanger from Season Four. A blow on the head had caused Dade County vice cop Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) to assume the identity of his undercover alter ego Sonny Burnett, and while in this "role" he foments a deadly turf war ...

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