Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is an American actor, director, producer, and activist. He is best known for his roles as Lieutenant Martin "Marty" Castillo in Miami Vice (1984–1989), actor in and director of American Me (1992), William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009), teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver (1988), and Detective Gaff in Blade Runner (1982), and its sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017). In 2018, he played the father of two members of an outlaw motorcycle club in the FX series Mayans MC.
For his work in Miami Vice, Olmos won the 1985 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. For his performance in Stand and Deliver, Olmos was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
He is also known for his roles as patriarch Abraham Quintanilla in the film Selena, narrator El Pachuco in both the stage and film versions of Zoot Suit, and the voice of Chicharrón in Coco.
Over the course of his career, Olmos has been a pioneer for more diversified roles and images of Hispanics in the U.S. media. His notable direction, production, and starring roles for films, made-for-TV movies, and TV shows include Wolfen, Triumph of the Spirit, Talent for the Game, American Me, The Burning Season, My Family/Mi Familia, Caught, 12 Angry Men, The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca, Walkout, The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, American Family, and Dexter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edward James Olmos, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 24.591 |
| Birthday | 1947-02-24 |
| Place of Birth | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Also Known As | Эдвард Джеймс Олмос, |
1982
Blade Runner
7.94/13731
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have...
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2001
In the Time of the Butterflies
6.45/38
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2010
I'm Still Here
6/369
I'm Still Here is a portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, the film follows the Oscar-nominee as...
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I'm Still Here
2007
Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard
0/0
Fans, filmmakers and people involved with the making of Blade Runner debate if main character Rick Deckard is himself in fact a Replicant or not.
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Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard
2007
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
0/0
A look back to the 2019 fashions, costumes and make-up as seen in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.
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Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
1997
12 Angry Men
7.7/361
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12 Angry Men
1992
American Me
7.4/353
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American Me
1978
Evening in Byzantium
0/0
While the prestigious Cannes Film Festival goes on around him, American movie producer Jesse Craig struggles to develop a pitch-worthy thriller about...
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Evening in Byzantium
1994
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
4.4/124
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
2011
The Green Hornet
5.6/3200
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1991
Talent for the Game
6/3
Virgil Sweet is on the verge of losing his job as a talent scout with the California Angels when he discovers Sammy Bodeen, a country boy with no pro...
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Talent for the Game
1988
Stand and Deliver
7.6/376
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Stand and Deliver
2008
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
5.384/1048
A pampered Beverly Hills chihuahua named Chloe who, while on vacation in Mexico with her owner Viv's niece, Rachel, gets lost and must rely on her fri...
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1980
Virus
6.3/57
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Blue Collar & Buddha
0/0
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Blue Collar & Buddha
1997
Selena
7.721/1214
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2006
Splinter
4.3/15
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Splinter
1995
My Family
7.6/71
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My Family
1996
Caught
5.8/18
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Caught
2000
Gossip
5.8/240
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Gossip
2007
Battlestar Galactica: Razor
7.138/396
A two-hour Battlestar Galactica special that tells the story of the Battlestar Pegasus several months prior to it finding the Galactica.
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Battlestar Galactica: Razor
2013
Filly Brown
6.2/20
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Filly Brown
1997
Selena Remembered
10/1
A collection of moments and triumphs that helped Selena, and her band Selena y Los Dinos, into superstardom in North America.
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Selena Remembered
1981
Zoot Suit
6.1/18
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Zoot Suit
2007
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
7.9/73
The definitive 3½-hour documentary about the troubled creation and enduring legacy of the science fiction classic 'Blade Runner', culled from 80 inter...
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Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
2006
Recycled Life
6.8/6
The dramatic and touching story of thousands of adults, children, and generations of families who have been living and working in the largest and most...
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Recycled Life
1997
Hollywood Confidential
3.9/7
A former LA cop runs a top-flight private detective agency that caters to spoiled Hollywood types.
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Hollywood Confidential
1977
Alambrista!
6/17
After the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man, slips across the border into the United States. Seeking work to support his family b...
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Alambrista!
1998
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
6.7/11
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The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
2024
Outlaw Posse
6.071/7
1908. Chief returns from years of hiding in Mexico to claim stolen reparations gold hidden in the hills of Montana but is chased by Angel, whose ratio...
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Outlaw Posse
2009
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
6.7/423
When the initial Cylon attack against the Twelve Colonies fails to achieve complete extermination of human life as planned, twin Number Ones (Cavils)...
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1986
Blue Collar & Buddha
0/0
Exploration of prejudice and culture clash that a group of Laotian Buddhist refugees must endure in Rockford, Illinois.
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Blue Collar & Buddha
1999
Zapatista
5.2/6
"Zapatista" is the definitive look at the uprising in Chiapas. It is the story of a Mayan peasant rebellion armed with sticks and their word against a...
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Zapatista
2014
Exile Nation: The Plastic People
7/2
The September 11th attacks began a decade-long period of anti-immigrant policies in the United States. As a consequence, the US began the mass-deporta...
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2013
2 Guns
6.5/4111
A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob --...
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2 Guns
2001
The Judge
5/3
When a key witness in a case of corruption is killed in courts all suspicion falls on Judge Armando Acosta. Now the judge Madiani will defend his inno...
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2013
Go for Sisters
6/16
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1997
The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca
0/0
A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca, who disappeared after his arrest by th...
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The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca
1995
Mirage
3.2/5
Matteo Juarez is a retired detective hired by a local businessman to follow his wife Jennifer. She has a split personality and seems to be putting her...
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Mirage
1983
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
6.8/23
Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in d...
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The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
1995
Slave of Dreams
1/1
The Egyptian executioner's wife tries to seduce Hebrew slave Joseph to fulfill a dream they are experiencing simultaneously.
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Slave of Dreams
2014
Journey of a Female Comic
6.8/4
The ups and downs of female comic Kiki Melendez.
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Journey of a Female Comic
2016
Americano
4.8/18
Cuco, a mexican parrot, goes on an adventure from Mexico to Hollywood in order to get help from El Americano, a famous superhero from TV, against an e...
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1979
Dead Angle
7/1
Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.
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Dead Angle
1999
Bonanno: A Godfather's Story
3.8/5
The true life story of mafia boss Joesph Bonanno. The story spans from Bonanno's early beginings in Italy, to his conquests in America.
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Bonanno: A Godfather's Story
1994
A Million to Juan
5.4/5
Romantic comedy about an honest Mexican immigrant who struggles without a green card by selling oranges on a street corner. One day a limousine pulls...
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A Million to Juan
1994
Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills
5.7/6
About the 1989 murders of Carolco Entertainment chairman, Jose Menendez, and his wife, Kitty, who were killed by their sons, Lyle and Erik, in Beverly...
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Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills
1993
Roosters
4/2
Gallo Morales is the proud patriach returning home after a seven-year stint for manslaughter. Seeking to re-establish his legendary status as a champi...
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Roosters
2005
La Cerca
0/0
Edward James Olmos narrates this multi-fest winner about an immigrant who recalls a vivid and momentous memory where he discovered his boundaries.
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La Cerca
1982
Seguin
0/0
A dramatization of the life of Juan Seguin, a heroic Mexican-Texan who became entangled in the struggle between two contrasting cultures in the turbul...
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Seguin
1998
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
5/15
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
1989
Triumph of the Spirit
6.6/49
During World War II, Salamo Arouch, a passionate boxer, is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Soon, he is forced to box against his fellow pri...
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Triumph of the Spirit
1998
The Wall
5.7/3
The story of three items left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall: a pencil holder, a sheriff's badge, and an electric guitar. Each item connects th...
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The Wall
1994
Lives in Hazard
8/1
Lives in Hazard is a tough, uncompromising look at kids in gangs and the men they become in prison. Filmed in the barrios of east LA and in the prison...
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Lives in Hazard
2015
Unity
7.5/33
Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one anothe...
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Unity
2011
America
4.8/6
América, a 30-year-old mother who lives in a remote Caribbean village, suffers the hardest hit when her lover takes her daughter from her. Fury and fe...
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America
1996
The Limbic Region
5.7/3
Original and unpredictable thriller about a seasoned cop determined to bring down San Francisco's most notorious serial killer in the turbulent 1960's...
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The Limbic Region
2024
One Fast Move
6.7/165
A dishonorably discharged soldier seeks out his estranged father to help him pursue his dream of becoming a professional motorcycle racer. While train...
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One Fast Move
1990
Maria's Story
0/0
It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader is...
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Maria's Story
1975
Aloha, Bobby and Rose
5.9/14
Bobby and Rose, two youngsters who are in love, have to run away from home when they are falsely accused to have committed a robbery and an assassinat...
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Aloha, Bobby and Rose
1990
The Earth Day Special
8.6/5
The Earth Day Special is a television special revolving around Earth Day that aired on ABC on April 22, 1990. Sponsored by Time Warner, the two hour s...
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The Earth Day Special
1996
Death in Granada
5.7/16
A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca, who disappeared in the early days of t...
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Death in Granada
2006
Walkout
5.9/11
Walkout is the true story of a young Mexican American high school teacher, Sal Castro. He mentors a group of students in East Los Angeles, when the st...
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Walkout
2013
A Bridge Apart
0/0
The journey of the thousands of people from Central America and Mexico who leave their homes and families and suffer extraordinary brutality -or loss...
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A Bridge Apart
2000
The Road to El Dorado
7.256/3720
After a failed swindle, two con-men end up with a map to El Dorado, the fabled "city of gold," and an unintended trip to the New World. Much to their...
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The Road to El Dorado
1983
The Nightingale
3.7/3
A kitchen maid and a nightingale help save an emperor with the power of song and friendship.
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The Nightingale
2000
The Princess and the Barrio Boy
5/7
A teenager who dreams of becoming an Olympic swimmer has a romance with a boy from the wrong side of town.
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The Princess and the Barrio Boy
2017
Blade Runner 2049
7.6/13598
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge wh...
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Blade Runner 2049
2017
LA 92
7.752/117
Twenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests, violence and looting in Los Angeles, LA 92 immerses vie...
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LA 92
2017
Coco
8.209/19467
Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desp...
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Coco
1986
Saving Grace
6.1/8
A newly-elected Pope Leo XIV finds himself accidentally locked out of the Vatican. Unknown to the outside world, he winds up in an impoverished Italia...
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Saving Grace
2017
L.A. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later
7.5/4
Documentary film exploring the lives of the people at the flashpoint of the LA riots, 25 years after the uprising made national headlines and highligh...
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L.A. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later
2017
Blade Runner: Black Out 2022
7.165/392
This animated short revolves around the events causing an electrical systems failure on the west coast of the US. According to Blade Runner 2049’s off...
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Blade Runner: Black Out 2022
2019
The Devil Has a Name
5.4/54
An oil baron and a farmer standoff after the water on his farm is poisoned by her company.
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The Devil Has a Name
2019
A Dog's Way Home
7.4/1099
The adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is separated from her beloved human.
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A Dog's Way Home
2009
A Class Apart: A Mexican American Civil Rights Story
0/0
Built around the landmark 1954 legal case Hernandez v. Texas, the film interweaves the stories of its central characters with a broader story of the c...
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A Class Apart: A Mexican American Civil Rights Story
2018
The Eyes of Martin Castillo
0/0
An exploration of the faces and spaces of Lieutenant Martin Castillo, as portrayed by Edward James Olmos, on the television series Miami Vice.
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The Eyes of Martin Castillo
2019
Windows on the World
4/2
After watching the news on 9/11 with his family, Fernando travels from Mexico to New York City to find his father, an undocumented worker at the World...
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Windows on the World
1981
300 Miles for Stephanie
0/0
A San Antonio cop, as an act of faith, vows to run more than 300 miles in five days, hoping his critically ill five-year-old daughter will survive to...
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300 Miles for Stephanie
1994
The Burning Season
6.19/21
Based on the true story of a Brazilian rubber tapper who leads his people in protest against government and developers, who want to cut down their par...
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The Burning Season
2018
Every Night's a Saturday Night
8/1
The Life & Times of Bobby Keys ... decades-long Sax player with The Rolling Stones, best friend to Keith Richards, and session player with John Lennon...
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Every Night's a Saturday Night
2021
Chasing Wonders
4.4/5
A coming-of-age story set across the lush wine country of both Australia and Spain, a young man explores the nature of father-son relationships and th...
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Chasing Wonders
2019
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
0/0
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage is a warm and revealing portrait of the charismatic, groundbreaking actor’s journey from his native Puerto Rico to the...
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Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
2019
Imprisoned
5.45/10
Dylan Burke attempts to move on from his former life as a criminal with his true love Maria. He soon realizes that his past will continue to haunt him...
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Imprisoned
1981
Wolfen
5.9/213
A New York City cop and an expert criminologist trying to solve a series of grisly deaths in which the victims have seemingly been maimed by feral ani...
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Wolfen
2014
Agave is Life
5.5/2
AGAVE IS LIFE is an exploration of the history of the agave plant in the cultures of Mexico and the American Southwest. Starting thousands of years ag...
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Agave is Life
2020
Space Songs: Through the Distance
0/0
"Space Songs" is a YouTube concert event, sharing songs about space and isolation to celebrate how extreme situations can bring out the very best in u...
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Space Songs: Through the Distance
2020
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
8.2/10
Ryan Seacrest hosts the second Disney Family Singalong featuring celebrities and their families as they take on their favorite Disney tunes from their...
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The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
2016
Monday Nights at Seven
0/0
Monday Nights At Seven is a love story about a single father, Lazo Saroby, who is struggling unsuccessfully to let go of his past. Then he meets Isabe...
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Monday Nights at Seven
2019
Carlos Almaraz: Playing with Fire
4.5/2
Mixing archival footage with interviews, this film celebrates one of Los Angeles's most influential painters and Chicano art activists from the 1970s.
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Carlos Almaraz: Playing with Fire
1999
The Unfinished Journey
6/2
A short about American life and history produced for the millennium New Year's Eve celebration.
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The Unfinished Journey
2021
Walking with Herb
6.7/3
Joe Amable-Amo is a bank executive and former amateur golfer struggling with his faith after an unexpected tragedy. Faced with growing doubts about hi...
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Walking with Herb
2021
The Blade Runner Phenomenon
6.8/8
Ridley Scott's cult film Blade Runner, based on a novel by Philip K. Dick and released in 1982, is one of the most influential science fiction films e...
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1997
Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika
0/0
Schmidt follows the 27 miles of the “street of life” to Pacific Palisades, where the boulevard ends at the ocean. While interviews with celebrities f...
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Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika
1989
Miami Vice: Freefall
0/0
Crockett and Tubbs, figuring they're on their way out, are recruited by the government to help a dictator escape from his war-torn country - with doub...
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