Enrique Castillo
Biography: Castillo was a founding member of The Latino Theater Company. He co-wrote the company’s plays Stone Wedding and August 29. In addition to the plays, he wrote and directed the film The History of The Latino Theater Company, a documentary chronicling the theater company, and co-produced the company’s annual comedy fundraiser Noche de Risa y Susto. In 1997 Castillo created Four Brown Hats Entertainment (FBHE), a film and theater production company. With FBHE, he adapted and directed The Last Angry Brown Hat. Following this, he wrote and directed Veteranos: A Legacy of Valor, a theater piece honoring the military contributions by Latinos in America’s defense. Among his completed feature film scripts are Yo Solo, The Cobra, Valley of the Dead, Deerdancer, and The Last Angry Brown Hat.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 10, 1949
Deathday: N/A
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The Hi-Lo Country
1998-12-30
The Hi-Lo Country
Overview: An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War II, in its twilight. Pete and Big Boy are masters of the prairie, but ultimately face trickier terrain: the human heart.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-30
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A Beautiful Life
2009-10-02
A Beautiful Life
Overview: A love story about the encounter of two drifting souls. Escaping her abusive past, a woman stays the night with an illegal immigrant friend of a friend. The two get closer and fall in love, but face turmoil.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-02
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Graffiti
1985-01-01
Graffiti
Overview: Graffiti is a 1985 English language short film directed by Matthew Patrick. It follows a young man who lives in a South American military dictatorship goes out during curfew to make drawings with chalk, for thrills. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Little Treasure
1985-05-01
Little Treasure
Overview: Margo is an ex-stripper who meets her long, lost father in Mexico. She looks after him in the waning days of his life, with the help of a traveling projectionist. The father passes away, telling of the loot from a botched bank robbery that he buried years earlier. The two get jobs in town as their relationship grows and they search for the treasure on the weekends. But while the treasure seems to bring them together, it also seems to be tearing them apart.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-01
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Déjà Vu
2006-11-22
Déjà Vu
Overview: Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-22
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Borderline
1980-12-19
Borderline
Overview: Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of illegal aliens is responsible for Scooter's death, but the feds insist that drug dealers committed the crime.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-19
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A Small Killing
1981-11-24
A Small Killing
Overview: A college professor is recruited by an undercover cop to pose as a bag lady to track down a drug connection following the brutal killing of a skid row crone.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-24
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Bound by Honor
1993-02-05
Bound by Honor
Overview: Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.
Genres: Crime Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-05
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The Delos Adventure
1987-01-01
The Delos Adventure
Overview: She's caught in a deadly battle between two superpowers and it's going to take every trick she knows to survive
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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El Padrino II: Border Intrusion
2008-01-01
El Padrino II: Border Intrusion
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
1994-01-23
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
Overview: A criminal gang commits a string of violent robberies and murders, culminating in the assassination of the police detective on the case, which may lead to their downfall.
Genres: Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-23
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In Good Company
2004-12-29
In Good Company
Overview: Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naive supervisor Carter Duryea, who is half his age. Matters are made worse when Dan's new supervisor becomes romantically involved with his daughter an 18 year-old college student Alex.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-29
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Nixon
1995-12-22
Nixon
Overview: A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-22
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Mars Attacks!
1996-12-13
Mars Attacks!
Overview: A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-13
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Seguin
1982-01-26
Seguin
Overview: A dramatization of the life of Juan Seguin, a heroic Mexican-Texan who became entangled in the struggle between two contrasting cultures in the turbulent decade between the Texas Revolution (1836) and the Mexican-American War (1846-1847).
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-26
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Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier
1980-12-07
Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier
Overview: Based on Bleier's 1975 autobiography of the same name, it tells the story of how, after becoming a running back for the Steelers in 1968, he was then drafted by the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-07
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The Sellouts
The Sellouts
Overview: A 1972 television adaptation of Los Vendidos, a one-act play by Chicano playwright Luis Valdez, a founding member of El Teatro Campesino. The play examines and dramatizes stereotypes of Mexican Americans in California and how they are treated by local, state, and federal governments.
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Original Language: en
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Get Out of My Room
1985-10-01
Get Out of My Room
Overview: Get Out of My Room, was a mockumentary in the style of This Is Spinal Tap, written and directed by Cheech Marin. In the film, he and Tommy Chong are shown attempting to finish a "video album" for their novelty record Get Out of My Room.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-01
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Losin' It
1983-04-08
Losin' It
Overview: In 1965, four Los Angeles school friends -- Woody, Dave, Spider and Wendell -- go on a series of misadventures when they head to Tijuana, Mexico, for a night of cruisin', causing trouble, and to lose their virginity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-08
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Maniac Cop 2
1990-07-18
Maniac Cop 2
Overview: After being framed by corrupt superiors and brutally assaulted in prison, Officer Matt Cordell teams up with a vicious serial killer to track down those that wronged him.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-18
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Homebound
2013-08-21
Homebound
Overview: A successful young man must return to his childhood small town in Texas to help his father. His father, who's ill, wants him to take over the family business, a dilapidated bar. Secretly the young man wants to burn down the bar because he blames it for the death of his own mother and the illness of his father.
Genres: Romance Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-21
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Fuego
2007-10-29
Fuego
Overview: The daughter of the American Ambassador to Spain has been kidnapped. There is only one man who can save her.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-29
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Beatriz at Dinner
2017-06-09
Beatriz at Dinner
Overview: Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner. Doug Strutt is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire. When these two opposites meet at a dinner party, their worlds collide, and neither will ever be the same.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-09
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Black Moon Rising
1986-01-10
Black Moon Rising
Overview: An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-10
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In Other Words
2020-09-14
In Other Words
Overview: A tech geek lands an investor for his matchmaking app. But when his app matches him with a beautiful girl who doesn't speak English, he travels with his buddies to wine country in Baja California, Mexico to prove his algorithm isn't screwy.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-14
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El Norte
1983-10-11
El Norte
Overview: Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-10-11
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Picking Up the Pieces
2000-05-26
Picking Up the Pieces
Overview: A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it actually belongs to a murdered spouse with a husband in search of it.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-26
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The End of Violence
1997-09-12
The End of Violence
Overview: Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action films. His ignored wife Paige is close to leaving him. Suddenly Mike is kidnapped by two bandits, but escapes and hides out with his Mexican gardener's family for a while. At the same time, surveillance expert Ray Bering is looking for what happens in the city, but it is not clear what he wants. The police investigation for Max's disappearance is led by detective Doc Block, who falls in love with actress Cat who is playing in ongoing Max's production.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-12
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