Raymond Cruz
Also Known As: Ray Cruz, Raymond Garcia, 雷蒙德·克鲁斯, ریموند کروز
Biography: Raymund Cruz (born July 9, 1961) is a Mexican American actor. He is mostly known for playing military roles. His movie roles include Clear and Present Danger as Ding Chavez, The Substitute as Tom Berenger's second-in-command Joey Six, The Rock in an un-credited U.S. Marine role, From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money as Jesus, Alien Resurrection as USM Private Vincent DiStephano, and Under Siege as Ramirez. He also appeared in the gang movie Blood In Blood Out, playing the role of Chuey, a gang member from the Vatos Locos. In 2005 he played Chino In Havoc. He also appears in Gremlins 2: The New Batch, credited as "The Messenger," and in Training Day as a gang member named Sniper, the poker player who doesn't know that three-of-a-kind beats two pair. He has made guest appearances in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Siege of AR-558", in The X-Files Season 4 episode "El Mundo Gira" and in the second season of 24 as a thug. In the Music Videoclip from Madonna Vogue ,He also made an appearance as the father of a murdered girl in CSI. Cruz played a large distributor of methamphetamines named Tuco on Breaking Bad in 2008. He is now a regular cast member on the TV series The Closer. Cruz also had a recurring role as Paco on My Name Is Earl, and as Alejandro Perez on Nip/Tuck. Description above from the Wikipedia article Raymond Cruz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles County, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 09, 1961
Age: 63 years old
Gender: Male
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My Dead Dad
Overview: A young burnout discovers his estranged father is dead, leaving him the responsibility of managing an apartment complex. With hopes of cutting ties, he's forced to grow up, learning about the dad he never knew through the eclectic tenants.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-07
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The Substitute
Overview: When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon he discovers a conspiracy of criminals at work, and must reassemble his team from his last jungle raid to stop them.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-19
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Brothers in Arms
Overview: The two 'most wanted' cowboys in the New Mexico territory ride into Corazon for one last job - to rob the ruthless town boss.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Alien Resurrection
Overview: Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-12
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From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
Overview: A bank-robbing gang of misfits heads to Mexico with the blueprints for the perfect million-dollar heist, but when one of the crooks wanders into the wrong bar, the thieving cohorts develop a thirst for blood.
Genres: Crime Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-16
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Clear and Present Danger
Overview: Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-03
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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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Judgement
Overview: A juvenile court judge goes out of her way to try to aid a young man whom she believes has innocently gotten involved with a gang.
Genres: Drama Music Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-05
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Havoc
Overview: A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a violent Latino gang. Suddenly, their role-playing seems a little too real.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-16
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Twice Dead
Overview: The ghost of a hanged movie star helps a brother and sister rid their mansion of punks.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-18
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Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun
Overview: Life in space. Beam-ins. Intergalactic war. What about getting a driver's license or doing the laundry? This one-hour special features dozens of space professionals---from astronauts and life systems engineers to space suit designers, interior decorators and the "Lunar Lettuce Man." A moving story concerning Jaime Escalante and one of his students (Raymond Cruz) is interwoven with imaginative vignettes that explore the humor and drama of day-to-day life away from Earth. A documentary AND fantasy. Shot on video and on film. Guest stars include Kathy Bates, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Pat Morita, Esai Morales, and Billy Bob Thornton.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-30
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Medellin
Overview: To save his little brother from the hands of dangerous narcos of the Medellín cartel, Reda has a plan that is as simple as it is totally insane: put together a team and raid Colombia. But this adventure is going to get completely out of control when he decides to kidnap the son of the cartel leader to exchange him for his brother's life.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-01
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Last Stand at Saber River
Overview: As America recovers from the Civil War, one man tries to put the pieces of his life back together but finds himself fighting a new battle on the frontier. Cable is an embittered Confederate soldier who returns from the war to reclaim his Arizona homestead from rebel pioneers who sympathize with the Union war effort.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-19
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Playing Patti
Overview: Dark-humored documentary about television child actress Patti Cohoon and how, on the occasion of her 40th birthday, she reflects on having attained her greatest creative and financial success before she reached the age of 19.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-06
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Perfect Crimes
Overview: True stories about individuals seeking to commit a perfect crime.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-08
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Dragstrip Girl
Overview: Johnny is a bad guy trying to go straight and becomes smitten with Laura, a wealthy good girl who is rebelling against her parents, all set among the backdrop of 1950s Los Angeles.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-02
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My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure
Overview: Modesty, raised by a casino owner after being abandoned by her parents, has become skilled in the ways of fighting and now acts as the casino owner's bodyguard. When she's unable to prevent the owner's murder at the hands of an old foe, Modesty is hell-bent on seeking revenge. --- An adaptation of the Modesty Blaise novels and comic strip by Peter O'Donnell.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-28
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Maid to Order
Overview: Spoiled Jessie Montgomery, whose wild behavior and spending excesses cause her well-meaning but exasperated millionaire father Charles to wish he never had her, is visited by fairy godmother Stella. In an effort to save Jessie, Stella casts a spell which causes Charles to no longer have a daughter. Jessie, now penniless and without a friend, must take a maid's job to earn a living, and hopefully to learn her lesson.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-10
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a Gringo Honeymoon
Overview: James Wallace is a young American. To him Mexico was just another adventure in a life lived without any grand plans. A place to go where nobody knew who you were and nobody cared. A chance to drop out and get by within Mexico's flourishing underground economy. When he finds himself working as a 'surgeon' in Carlos Melgarejos' burgeoning organ trafficking ring things start looking up. But that was before he met Rosalita, a prostitute at the amateur lucha libre whose profound beauty shakes his insouciance. Suddenly there's more to life than cutting out kidneys south of the border. James wants out and he wants to take Rosalita with him. For Carlos this is more than just another headache in a life filled with niggling trespasses, this is personal.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-06
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Six Feet
Overview: A lone front desk attendant in an isolated motel must battle his anxiety disorder, cleaning obsession and possible motel contamination while serving quarantined guests in the middle of a deadly global pandemic.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-30
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Ten Tricks
Overview: In one night, a madam at a brothel makes plans to get pregnant, while a magician working across the street makes a drastic move to change his life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-27
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Just Hustle
Overview: A young private detective is set up to take the fall for a college gambling ring that has paid a football player to throw the National Championship.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-27
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Made in Hollywood
Overview: A parable of the Hollywood image-making industry told through a pastiche of narrative cliches.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-20
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Out for Justice
Overview: Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his partner was someone's big mistake... because he's now out for justice.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-12
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A Nightmare on Drug Street
Overview: Middle class teenagers Jill, Felipe and Eddie, talk about their addiction and drug-related death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Cleveland Abduction
Overview: A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-02
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Up Close & Personal
Overview: Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-01
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Nails
Overview: The wife of a wild Los Angeles police detective becomes a hostage of the heroin ring he and his partner have exposed.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-25
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Training Day
Overview: On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-05
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The Last Marshal
Overview: Marshall McClary, one of the most violent, racist, foul- mouthed Marshalls in Texas, is in the middle of resolving a hostage situation (by shooting everyone he sees) when the FBI agents show up, interfering with his negotiation, and ending the event with McClary being wounded and two of the criminals escaping. After hearing that the two fugitives has fled to Miami, McClary follows behind them, working with the local police and offending every single person he encounters.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-02
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Under Siege
Overview: A disgruntled ex-CIA operative, his assistant and their assembled group of terrorists seize a battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've planned for every contingency but ignore the ship's cook, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback—an error that could be fatal.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-08
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The Rock
Overview: When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-07
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When the Party's Over
Overview: Four housemates try to find love and happiness in Los Angeles -- often at the expense of their well-being and friendships. Artist Amanda is trying to make it on the gallery scene, while aspiring actor Banks attempts to hit it big in Hollywood. Meanwhile, Frankie has an emotionally draining yet rewarding job as a social worker, but would be shattered to know that her roommate M.J. is sleeping with her boyfriend.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-12
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Overview: Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!
Genres: Comedy Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-15
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The Curse of La Llorona
Overview: In 1970s Los Angeles, ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her own young kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-17
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Wander
Overview: After getting hired to probe a suspicious death in the small town of Wander, a mentally unstable private investigator becomes convinced the case is linked to the same 'conspiracy cover up' that caused the death of his daughter.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-04
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Dead Badge
Overview: After a cop dies, his shield goes back on duty. They call it a "dead badge" - a way to honor a fallen officer. Badge #2424 used to belong to Many Torres - a cop who died of a heroin O.D. Now it belongs to Dan Sampson... and it's haunting him.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-28
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Collateral Damage
Overview: Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-06
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Serpentine
Overview: FBI Agents Luke Murphy and Jessica Rosen must resort to creative and unethical methods to combat Noah Moretti and his criminal crew who have partnered with a major cartel to traffic young women and children. In PRE-PRODUCTION
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
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Operation Dumbo Drop
Overview: Five Green Berets stationed in Vietnam in 1968 grudgingly undertake the mission of a lifetime -- to secretly transport an 8,000-pound elephant through 200 miles of rough jungle terrain. High jinks prevail when Capt. Sam Cahill promises the Montagnard villagers of Dak Nhe that he'll replace their prized elephant in time for an important ritual. But for Capt. T.C. Doyle, the mission becomes a jumbo-sized headache!
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-28
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Blue Miracle
Overview: To save their cash-strapped orphanage, a guardian and his kids partner with a washed-up boat captain for a chance to win a lucrative fishing competition.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-27
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Blood Money
Overview: A family run business is being forced to become a front for the mob. Ronnie (Brian Bloom) stands up against the Cancino family to save his family's life.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-12
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Man Trouble
Overview: A sleazy but affable guard dog trainer is blackmailed to steal a manuscript for a tell-all book from one of his clients.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-17
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Dead Again
Overview: In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is somehow linked to the Strauss murder.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-23
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Love, Danielle
Overview: Amid family drama and dysfunction, a woman who carries a BRCA gene mutation must decide whether or not to remove her breasts and ovaries to reduce her cancer risk.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-19
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Broken Arrow
Overview: When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-09
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