Alec Mapa
Biography: Alejandro "Alec" Mapa (born July 10, 1965) is an American actor, comedian and writer. He got his first professional break when he was cast to replace B.D. Wong for the role of Song Liling in the Broadwayproduction of M. Butterfly. He later gained notoriety for the roles of Adam Benet in Half & Half and Suzuki St. Pierre in Ugly Betty which are his best known roles. He is also known for his recurring role as Vern in Desperate Housewives. He co-hosted with Calpernia Addams the Logo network reality dating game show Transamerican Love Story. He is currently recurring in the role of Renzo in Switched at Birth.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 10, 1965
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Playing by Heart
1998-12-30
Playing by Heart
Overview: In a vibrant tapestry of love and longing, nine interconnected souls navigate romance and heartbreak in L.A., where passions collide and truths unfold, revealing that the heart's desires often lead us where we least expect.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-30
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Hard Pill
2005-07-15
Hard Pill
Overview: A despondent gay man throws his life and relationships into turmoil when he volunteers for a controversial pharmaceutical study for a drug designed to make gay men straight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-15
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Dirty Laundry
2006-07-15
Dirty Laundry
Overview: After ten years, Sheldon returns from New York City to Paris, Georgia. His mother Evelyn, a laundress who is stubborn, ornery, opinionated, mean-spirited, insulting, and inflexible, has sent a ten-year-old boy who says he's Sheldon's son up to see Sheldon. Sheldon comes home to straighten things out. Old arguments flare up - between mother and son and between brothers. Sheldon wants no part of fatherhood or family. Then, someone else from New York shows up at Evelyn's door, bringing a new set of challenges. Will this family ever stop airing its dirty laundry? And what of Sheldon: where is his pride? Can he, in the words of James Baldwin, go where his blood beats and live the life he has?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-15
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A New Life
1988-03-25
A New Life
Overview: Steve Giardino, an abrasive workaholic Wall Streeter, and his wife Jackie divorce after twenty-six years of marriage and find themselves thrust back into the dating world in middle age and in search of a new life.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-25
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The Housewives of the North Pole
2021-12-09
The Housewives of the North Pole
Overview: The Christmas Queens of North Pole, Vermont, Trish and Diana, have won the Best Holiday House decorating competition every year for the past nine years. But days before Christmas, a friendship-ending argument sparks a town-wide feud and draws the attention of a national magazine writer hoping to make a name for herself with her scintillating expose.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-09
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Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure
2011-04-19
Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure
Overview: After a talent scout spots her performing with her dog Boi at a charity gala, Sharpay Evans sets off for the bright lights of NYC, convinced instant fame and fortune are in the bag. But theatre's a dog-eat-dog world. Fortunately, Sharpay also meets Peyton, a handsome student filmmaker who finds Sharpay nearly as fascinating as she finds herself.
Genres: Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-19
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Just Swipe
2022-02-08
Just Swipe
Overview: Vanessa has always had trouble in the dating world, never mind now being confined to her home. She soon discovers just how much you can get away with dating via webcam, but is the love she feels true or only a distorted version of reality?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-02-08
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ClearMind
2024-02-03
ClearMind
Overview: A grieving woman uses her virtual reality therapy to exact revenge on her former friends.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-03
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Marriage of Inconvenience
2023-04-06
Marriage of Inconvenience
Overview: New names, new jobs, new lives, new husbands...? Two total strangers entering a witness protection program must pretend to be happily married to hide their identities from the dangerous people who want them dead. Franklin is an even-tempered English professor who prides himself on his attention to detail in every area of his carefully structured life. Owen is a messy, street-smart dropout with anger issues, forced into a life of crime against his will. About the only thing Franklin and Owen have in common is that they're gay. Now, living together in a very small house as Mr. and Mr. Fulton, they find they have something else in common: they can't stand each other. But both men have complicated pasts, with some very bad people relentlessly hunting them down. With their lives on the line, Owen and Franklin are stuck with each other--for better or for worse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-06
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Going Down in LA-LA Land
2011-05-01
Going Down in LA-LA Land
Overview: A fresh face comes to Hollywood to act in movies but only the gay porn studios are eager to provide him with work.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-01
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Baby Steps
2023-05-01
Baby Steps
Overview: A year after the death of their beloved Lily, Beau and Caden learn that she froze some of her eggs and they must decide whether they are ready to take the next step in their relationship and become parents.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-01
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Another Coffee House Chronicles Movie
2022-06-01
Another Coffee House Chronicles Movie
Overview: Pulled from the second season of web series "Coffee House Chronicles," with new adventures of unlucky-in-love Eli, this movie continues to explore the life and loves of LGBTQ+ folks in Los Angeles.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-01
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My Favorite Girlfriend
2022-08-05
My Favorite Girlfriend
Overview: A man falls in love with a woman who has multiple personalities.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-05
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Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas
2023-12-02
Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas
Overview: Five soap opera divas as they reunite to shoot the final Christmas episode of their long-running sudser. The producer, Alex and director Nell, who happen to be old college friends, do their best to keep things on the rails but as the ladies come together, old rivalries resurface that threaten to tear the production apart.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-02
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Beethoven's Treasure Tail
2014-10-02
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
Overview: After everyone's favorite St. Bernard gets fired from a movie, Beethoven begins the long journey home with his trainer, Eddie. On their way, they become stranded in a small coastal town where the beloved canine befriends a young boy who is searching for buried treasure.
Genres: Family Comedy Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-02
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Such Good People
2014-05-09
Such Good People
Overview: A young couple discovers a secret room filled with cash while house-sitting for rich friends who die while out of the country.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-09
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Half-Share
2011-06-07
Half-Share
Overview: Fresh out of a long-term relationship, Mac leaves Oregon for a summer on Fire Island and must decide if he can handle his eccentric new housemates on the mythical Island of Misfit Boys.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-07
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Marley & Me
2008-12-25
Marley & Me
Overview: A newly married couple, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packed with plenty of laughs to lighten the load, the film explores the highs and lows of marriage, maturity and confronting one's own mortality, as seen through the lens of family life with a dog.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-25
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Supermom's Daughter
1987-02-18
Supermom's Daughter
Overview: A career driven mother and her daughter don't see eye to eye when it comes to the daughter's future plans.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-18
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Connie and Carla
2004-04-16
Connie and Carla
Overview: After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers working the city's dinner theater circuit ... disguised as drag queens. Now, it's not enough that they become big hits on the scene; things get extra-weird when Connie meets Jeff -- a guy she'd like to be a woman with.
Genres: Comedy Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-16
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Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy
2014-03-15
Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy
Overview: Actor and comedian Alec Mapa (America's Gaysian Sweetheart) shares hilarious and heartfelt stories about how his life has changed since he and his husband adopted a five year old through the foster care system. No topic is off limits in this raunchy yet moving film of his award-winning one-man show: Alec's sex life, midlife crisis, musical theatre, bodily functions, stage moms vs. baseball dads, and the joys, challenges, and unexpected surprises of fatherhood.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-15
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Grand-Daddy Day Care
2019-01-05
Grand-Daddy Day Care
Overview: A man has to figure out a way to make extra money when his father-in-law moves in.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-05
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A Very Sordid Wedding
2017-03-10
A Very Sordid Wedding
Overview: Del Shores' follow-up to "Sordid Lives" revisits Winters, Texas for a showdown between the gradually liberalizing locals and the new fundamentalist preacher in the wake of the Supreme Court's marriage equality decision.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-10
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Bright Lights, Big City
1988-04-01
Bright Lights, Big City
Overview: A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-01
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Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart
1994-03-25
Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart
Overview: In their very last adventure, Jonathan and Jennifer Hart travel to The Big Apple, where a play she wrote in college is being produced on Broadway. But there's sabotage going on, and when a stagehand is murdered, everyone's a suspect - even Jonathan!
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-25
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Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
2024-06-07
Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
Overview: This rapturous documentary steps into the dynamic world of queer stand-up and examines the powerful cultural influence it has had on social change in America. The film combines rare archival materials, stand-up performances, and interviews with a show-stopping lineup to present a definitive history of queer comedy.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-07
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Who's Your Daddy?
2004-01-07
Who's Your Daddy?
Overview: An adopted Ohio high school senior discovers he is the inherited heir to a porn empire. Dropped into a bitter power struggle, his new flock of beautiful co-workers come to his aid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-07
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Silver Fox
Silver Fox
Overview: It’s minutes before curtain when America’s favorite “guncle” (gay uncle), standup comedian Joe Fox, finds himself cornered by his family in his dressing room. After touring the country at the mic, Joey returns for his hometown show with a secret: tonight he’s doing the show in full drag. Not everyone's thrilled. What follows is a comic debate between three generations of gay men about sex, sexuality, queerness, fluidity, age, race, performance, and “woke” culture.
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Original Language: en
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The Substance of Fire
1996-09-11
The Substance of Fire
Overview: Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the ground by printing books that have no hope of financial success. His son Aaron, who also works at the company, grows frustrated with Isaac's emotional decline and attempts to take over the firm. The resulting crisis involves Isaac's other two children, his daughter Sarah and his dying son Martin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-11
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You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2008-06-05
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Overview: An Israeli counterterrorism soldier with a secretly fabulous ambition to become a Manhattan hairstylist. Zohan's desire runs so deep that he'll do anything -- including faking his own death and going head-to-head with an Arab cab driver -- to make his dreams come true.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-05
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Tru Loved
2008-02-27
Tru Loved
Overview: Recently relocated from San Francisco to conservative suburbia by her lesbian mothers, Tru struggles like all teens to fit in and find love, but her quest is complicated by sexual politics, closed minds, and closeted friends as she seeks to establish her school's first Gay-Straight Alliance.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-27
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Pride: The Gay & Lesbian Comedy Slam
2010-06-02
Pride: The Gay & Lesbian Comedy Slam
Overview: Gay & Lesbian Comedy Show Hosted by the Oscars resident writer for the past 17 years and comedy satirist Bruce Villanch, "Pride" the Gay & Lesbian Comedy show brings together four of today's funniest Gay and Lesbian comedians; starring outrageously funny comics Alec Mapa (Ugly Betty), Sandra Valls (Latin Divas Comedy), Poppy Champlin (Logo), and Scott Kennedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-02
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
2002-05-19
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Overview: Following World War I, Indy - now fluent in several languages - works as a translator at the controversial Paris Peace Conference, where he once more meets Lawrence of Arabia, and encounters the Arab Prince Faisal and a young Ho Chi Minh. Disillusioned by the hard and cynical realpolitik of international deal-making, he returns home to Princeton, New Jersey after a three-year absence, where he finds his father as cold and distant as ever, and discovers a detrimental change in his boyhood friend, Paul Robeson, caused by bigotry.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-19
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The Year of Spectacular Men
2018-06-15
The Year of Spectacular Men
Overview: In the year after graduating college, Izzy struggles to navigate the seemingly incessant failures of adulthood, the reality of a substandard dating pool and a debilitating fear of top-sheets, all in between X-Files marathons. Comically unsuccessful in love over the course the year, including five half-hearted relationships with astoundingly self-centered men, Izzy resigns herself to the support of her mother and sister, who are struggling with their own relationship problems. Seeing herself in them, Izzy gradually gains the confidence to be honest and vulnerable.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-15
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Black Briefs
2012-02-21
Black Briefs
Overview: Six dark-themed gay short films, including: SPRING: A young man meets a stranger for S&M sex, an experience that will change his life forever. REMISSION: As a man awaits the results of a biopsy at his secluded cabin, his dread amplifies when he suspects that he may not be alone. WINNER TAKES ALL: The unapologetic manipulator Ryker engineers a fight between his two boyfriends ... with Ryker himself as the ultimate prize. PROMISE: Stu and Chris appear to be the perfect couple, but past indiscretions are revealed on the eve of their wedding, causing unforgivable actions that both will regret. VIDEO NIGHT: What starts out as a fun night making videos goes terribly wrong when a group of friends discover something unexpected in the raw footage. COMMUNICATION: The story of an Orthodox Jewish student who unexpectedly inherits the estate of his estranged mentor and discovers a painful truth about their relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-21
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Annul Victory
2009-05-02
Annul Victory
Overview: Annul Victory is a documentary on the fight for marriage equality and the Proposition 8 election battle. The film documents the roller coaster ride of emotions in California after the historical state Supreme Court decision in May of 2008, finding it unconstitutional to deny gays and lesbians the right to be married in the state, and then the passage of Proposition 8 in November, denying gays and lesbians marriage rights, and “annulling” thousands of marriages. The story is told through the life and experiences of Robin Tyler and Diane Olson, one of the 14 couples involved in the historic litigation, with a look at some of the 18,000 couples who got married during the window of “legality” between May and November, with thought and commentary provided by a host of celebrities.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-02
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Winner Takes All
2011-04-30
Winner Takes All
Overview: A self-involved but seductive beauty engineers his two lovers to fight over him. And we mean, really fight.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-30
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Queen Bees
2021-06-11
Queen Bees
Overview: Helen is an independent widow who moves into the Pine Grove Senior Community and discovers it’s just like high school – full of cliques and flirtatious suitors. What she initially avoids leads her to exactly what she has been missing: new friendships and a chance at love again with newcomer Dan.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-11
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Chick Fight
2020-11-13
Chick Fight
Overview: When Anna Wyncomb is introduced to an underground, all-female fight club in order to turn the mess of her life around, she discovers she is much more personally connected to the history of the club than she could ever imagine.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-13
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