Lillian Hurst
Also Known As: Lilian Hurst, Lilliam Hurst, Liliam Hurst
Biography: Lillian Hurst (born August 13, 1943) is a Puerto Rican actress and comedian. She started her career in the 1960s, working as a comedian on TV, but then moved on to work on film, stage, and TV.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Birthday: August 13, 1943
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Doctor
Overview: Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-24
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A Million to Juan
Overview: 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 up and he is handed a check for $1,000,000 with instructions that he is to give the check back in 30 days. Initially he uses the check to convince people to extend credit to him. In the meantime he also attracts a woman who is in a dead end relationship with a bossy businessman. At the end of the 30 days, he finds his life in turmoil, the things he got on credit are repossessed, and he is being evicted from his dwelling and being sent back to Mexico.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-15
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Bread and Roses
Overview: Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-14
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Race
Overview: An East L.A working stiff is bullied by his wife to run for a City Council position against a well-organized recognized political figure.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-17
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Ready to Run
Overview: A 14-year-old girl who works at a racetrack trains a talking racehorse with issues, transforming him into a winner.
Genres: Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-14
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Private Obsession
Overview: First-class fashion model Emanuelle Griffith is missing. Richard Tate knows exactly where she is and plans to keep her there until she knows her place: subordinate to men. But Emannuelle is waiting for her chance to turn his obsession. That one second of passion in which the prisoner becomes the hostage taker...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-07
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The Summer My Father Grew Up
Overview: A divorced and remarried doctor tries to reconnect with his eleven-year-old son whom he has always neglected.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-03
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Things I Forgot to Remember
Overview: A bittersweet comedy in Spanish and English about a Cuban family that migrates to the United States. Robertico, Carmela and Roberto's youngest son, grow up feeling ashamed that his family might not be American enough. He has reached this conclusion by constantly watching American television and forming an opinion as to how Americans really are. Led by his desperation, he literally escapes into an American television sitcom in order to forget about his Cuban past. Not knowing what to do, his family prays to the Virgin Mary to ask for help. When the cultures clash, Robertico has to decide whether he is strong enough to withstand his own self-hatred, and learn not only self-esteem, but how to embrace his Cuban roots.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-06-10
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Orange County
Overview: Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his dysfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another, starting when his application is rejected after his dim-witted guidance counselor sends in the wrong form.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-11
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What I Did for Love
Overview: A man falls in love from afar with a woman who has just broken up acrimoniously with her husband and is disgusted with all men except her gay friends.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-06-17
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Candyman: Day of the Dead
Overview: As the Day of the Dead celebration approaches the barrio of East Los Angeles, Caroline is challenged to control the horrifying legend of her ancestor, the "Candyman".
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-09
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Nightstalker
Overview: Richard Ramirez, aka the Nightstalker, who terrorized people in Los Angeles during the 1980s, and the police had no clue with him.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-10
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From the Files of Joseph Wambaugh: A Jury of One
Overview: In the first of a potential series of films inspired by the real-life experiences of Los Angeles police officer turned bestselling author Joseph Wambaugh, an on-the-skids detective, with memories of having accidentally shot and killed his partner while they were pursuing a pair of bank robbers, tries to put his life back in order.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-29
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ESL: English as a Second Language
Overview: Bolivar De La Cruz (Kuno Becker) and Lola Sara (Danielle Camastra) share only ethnicity. He's just arrived from Mexico looking for work. Father´s Lola made the same journey twenty years ago. Now, Bolivar and Lola find themselves on a collision course with the events that will change their lives forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-04
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I Am a Director
Overview: After spending 5 years in Hollywood, California, Carlos has go back to his home in Puerto Rico to make his first feature film.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-05-09
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Mi Borinquen querido
Overview: Rosita is a young Puerto Rican woman, beautiful but for her scarred face, which she views as a curse. She ignores the men who serenade her nightly for a manipulative man who pursues her for the money she inherited.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-06-09
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15 años y un día
Overview: To confront the harsh reality of being accused for sexually molesting his own daughter, a man seeks escape in his mind.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-07-31
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Romance in Puerto Rico
Overview: Rosina is frustrated by her engagement to millionaire John Johnson III, a fussy, domineering, control freak. The night before her wedding, she goes out dancing with her maid María, María's husband Tomás, and their friend Gordillo. When Rosina learns Gordillo is a sailor on the yacht owned by Mexican film star José María Beltrán, she decides to stow away and sail to Mexico to be with her grandmother.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-11-21
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Yo soy un político
Overview: Carlos is an ex-con looking for a job where he earns a lot of money without having to work hard. After discussing it with his cellmate, they conclude that the only work to fit the description is to be politician in Puerto Rico. Carlos decides to run for Governor, like every politician always seeking for the best for his country, and of course, looking for what's best for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-08-11
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Romeo y Romeo
Overview: Two teenagers in Puerto Rico and the discovery of love through fairy tales and skateboards. Confronted by their desires and repressions, these two teens confront religious and social repressions condemning the chances of accepting their homosexuality.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-11-23
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Amigos
Overview: A realistic look at the plight of the Mariel Boat People, the so-called "undesirables" who were shipped off to America by Cuba's Fidel Castro in 1980. Ramon is among these people, and suffers the resentment of the longtime Cuban residents of Miami.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-12-01
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Not Forgotten
Overview: Set in a Tex-Mex border town, Not Forgotten is a classic psychological thriller about Jack and Amaya Bishop, a couple who must come to terms with their tortured pasts in order to save their kidnapped daughter. It is a tale taut with intrigue and steeped in Latino mysticism, where the line between what's real and what's imagined becomes hopelessly blurred.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-11
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Criminal
Overview: Needing a new partner capable of intricate cons, Richard Gaddis, recruits Rodrigo, a crook with a perfect poker face. The two plan a big-time scam: selling a fake Silver Certificate to currency collector William Hannigan. Rodrigo distrusts his new associate, but needs money to help out his ill father. The situation becomes more complicated when Rodrigo falls for Gaddis' sister, Valerie, drawing another player into the game.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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Sleepstalker
Overview: Seventeen years after slaughtering all but one member of a family, a vicious serial killer known only as "The Sandman" awaits execution. But first, his jailers allow a minister to visit the killer to give him last rites, unaware that the minister is a voodoo priest and an ally of the condemned prisoner. The priest places a hex on the Sandman so that when he is executed, his soul migrates into a new body made of sand. To sever his ties with his former life and achieve absolute power, the sandman must find and kill a man named Griffin, the sole survivor of the last family murdered by the killer
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-23
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